3-078-295 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Advertisement for Mellin's Food for Infants and Invalids, 1895. 'SELECTIONS FROM MELLIN'S INFANT PORTRAIT GALLERY. HIGHEST AWARDS at the CHICAGO EXHIBITION, A CALIFORNIAN MIDWINTER EXPOSITION, AND DRESDEN FOOD EXHIBITION. "I enclose a photo of my little boy, he has been brought up on Mellin's Food since he was seven weeks old. The picture speaks for itself as regards how the Food suited him...Enclosed I send you the photo of my son, Leslie Clifford Webber, which was taken when he was eleven months old. At four months of age he was so thin that he had to be carried about on a pillow, but after having your Food from that time he has gained flesh and strength..." MELLIN'S EMULSION of COD LIVER OIL and HYPOPHOSPHITES. For COUGHS, COLDS, and BRONCHITIS. THE SAFEST AND BEST TONIC FOR CHILDREN. Price 2/6 and 4/6 per Bottle. Sample size 1/-. Of all Chemists and Stores. AN ILLUSTRATED PAMPHLET ON THE FEEDING AND REARING OF INFANTS: A Practical and Simple Treatise tor Mothers. Containing a large number of Portraits of Healthy Children, together with Facsimiles of Original Testimonials, which are of the greatest interest to all mothers, to be had, with samples, free by post, on application to - MELLIN'S FOOD WORKS, Stafford Street, PECKHAM, S.E.' From "Illustrated London News", 1895.