Thumbnails of Helfand Slide Talk - 13
Slide #13: The commercial Eau de Melisse des Carmes was launched in 1864 and is still being sold today. But its origins go back further, to the early seventeenth century in a monastery in Paris. Its use in apoplexy, seasickness, indigestion, colic, and "the vapors" is proposed on the reverse side of the card.