Zam-Buk is a patent medicine which was produced by the Zam-Buk Company of Leeds, England, founded by Charles Edward Fulford. It was first sold by his Bile Beans company in 1902, as a herbal balm and a
Showcard advertising "Zam Buk soon clears away skin trouble". Wellcome L0030507
Keep Your Hands Soft & White with Zam Buk Wellcome L0076328
Bile Beans was a herbal tonic first marketed in the 1890s. The product supposedly contained substances extracted from an extremely rare vegetable by a fictitious chemist known as Charles Forde. In the
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…Zam-Buk is a patent medicine which was produced by the Zam-Buk Company of Leeds, England, founded by Charles Edward Fulford. It was first sold by his Bile Beans company in 1902, as a herbal balm and antiseptic ointment; the use of a complementary Zam-Buk soap was recommended to augment the treatment. The ointment…
Ghost sign advertising Bile Beans, painted on the wall of 18 Lord Mayors Walk, just outside the city walls in York, England
A paper packet advertising Bile Beans
Frontispiece to the sheet music for the "Bile Bean March"
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