Dr. Jayne's Expectorant [inscribed]

Item Overview

Title

Dr. Jayne's Expectorant [inscribed]

Alternative title

Words of comfort

Date Created

[between 1870 and 1906?]

Date

1870/1906

Place of Origin

Glen Rock (Pa.)

Publisher

E. R. Miller

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.
Reverse side of card shows the inside of a house with a family (mom, dad, daughter, maid) gathered around a table as the father reads them a book.

Caption

Additional card text: "Words of comfort," Is the significant title of our fifteenth card, illustrating a scene familiar to many homes in Christian lands, and is, we think, the best executed of our series. The revernt air and thoughtful countenance of each member of the group - the appropriate expression of each individual, so beautifully and carefully delineated, shows the sympathetic genius of the celebrated Scotch artist, Thomas Faed, at his very best. Our object in presenting this card is to ask you to remember that... When your own health is in question, and such symptoms are apparent as low spirits, restlessness, sour stomach, sick headache, a variable appetite, rising of food after eating, oppression of the stomach, low fever, languor, and irregularity of the bowels, rest assured it is a form of Dyspepsia - a complaint tending to break down the general stamina, and thus open the way for many serious physical evils. The remedy needed is Dr. Jayne's Tonic Vermifuge, not as a Vermifuge, but as a general Tonic. Two teaspoonfuls of this medicine, mixed with four tablespoonfuls of water, taken after each meal, keeping the bowels gently open when necessary with Dr. Jayne's Sanative Pills, will soon overcome the worst symptoms and remove this distressing disease. When your children's health is in question, and such symptoms are noticed as a variable appetite, with strange cravings, picking the nose, excessive thirst, low fever, bad breath, pale, sallow complexion, occasionally flushed cheeks, a wasting away, great nervousness, fitful sleep, grinding of the teeth, accompanied by weakness of the bowels - they indicate that the child is troubled with those dreadful pests, Worms, which worry its delicate system, and are producing such irritation and debility as will surely break down the constitution, and if the cause is not removed, may bring on St. Vitus' Dance or Convulsions, and render its after-life a burden. To save your child use Dr. Jayne's tonic vermifuge, according to the directions, and you will not only destroy the worms, but its tonic properties will rebuild the general health, -no other worm medicine, possessing such qualities. When worms are not indicated , and a gentle tonic is required, the vermifuge may be given with excellent results after each meal, in much smaller doses than for worms. For coughs, colds, throat and lung troubles, as everybody well knows, Dr. Jayne's Expectorant is the standard family remedy. Presented by E. R. Miller, Glen Rock, York Co., Pennsylvania

Physical Description

Extent

1 print (trade card)

Dimensions

7.8 x 11.7 cm.

Keywords

Genre

trade cards

Location

United States

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Headache--drug therapy--Advertisements
Helminths
Women
Nausea--drug therapy--Advertisements
Dyspepsia--drug therapy--Advertisements
Drugs, Non-Prescription--Advertisements
Men
Headache--Treatment
Indigestion
Patent medicines
Books
Helminths--Advertisements