Ayer's Ague Cure is warranted to cure fever & ague and all malarial disorders [inscribed]

Item Overview

Title

Ayer's Ague Cure is warranted to cure fever & ague and all malarial disorders [inscribed]

Date Created

[between 1870 and 1906?]

Place of Origin

Lowell (Mass.)

Publisher

Dr. J.C. Ayer & Co.

Language

English

Collection

Patent Medicine Trade Cards
History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection

Notes

Description

Original trade card forms part of: Collection no. 311, History & Special Collections for the Sciences, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA.
Image on front of card depicts a man rowing a boat on a swamp in front of a log cabin. A woman and child are on the shore. Mossy trees and a pink flamingo are in the background. Triangular image on bottom right depicts crocodile and two frogs, with one of the frogs showing the bottle to the crocodile. Text on front and back of card indicates a treatment used for curing fever, ague & all malarial disorders.

Caption

Additional card text: Ayer's Ague Cure is a purely vegetable bitter and powerful tonic, and is, with a positive knowledge of its effects, warranted a speedy and certain cure for Fever and Ague, Intermittent, Remittent, and Bilious Fevers, and for all disorders peculiar to malarious, marshy and miasmatic districts...It is a startling fact that most of the "Fever and Ague preparations," "Ague Pills," "Specifics," "Syrups," "Febrifuges" and "Tonics" in the market contain quinine, arsenic, zinc, or other poisonous substances, which, although they may break the chill, do not cure, but leave the malarial poison and their own drug poison in the system, producing Quinism, Congestion, Deafness, Neuralgia, and other disorders more formidable than the disease they were intended to cure. Ayer's Ague Cure thoroughly neutralizes and eradicates from the system these noxious poisons, and always cures the severest cases, leaving the patient as well as before the attack. It contains no quinine, mineral, or anything that will injure the most delicate patient, and we warrant it when taken according to directions...Where disorders of the liver and bowels have occurred from miasmatic poison, it removes the cause of them and they disappear. If taken occasionally by patients exposed to malaria, it will expel the poison and protect them from attack...For Liver Complaints it is an excellent remedy.

Physical Description

Extent

1 print (trade card)

Dimensions

6 x 11.5 cm.

Keywords

Genre

trade cards

Frogs
Malaria--Treatment
Fever--Treatment
Crocodiles
Drugs, Non-Prescription--Advertisements
Log cabins
Malaria--drug therapy--Advertisements
Fever--drug therapy--Advertisements
Wetlands
Patent medicines

Location

United States

Resource type

still image