Burdock Blood Bitters [inscribed]

Item Overview

Title

Burdock Blood Bitters [inscribed]

Place of Origin

Auburn (Me.)

Language

English

Collection

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

Notes

Description

Description: A young child is standing with her feet apart, right hand on hip, and left hand on a wooden sword, attached to the belt the child wears. The child wears a gray jacket on a white shirt and a yellow short pants and white socks with blue dots until her knees. She also wears a pair of circular glasses and a burgundy cap.

Caption

There are thousands of females in America who suffer untold miseries from chronic diseases common to their sex...To all such whose hollow cheeks, pale faces, sunken eyes and feeble footsteps indicate nervous and general debility bordering on consumption, we would earnestly recommend that grand system-renovating tonic, Burdock Blood Bitters. It makes pure, healthy blood, and regulates all the organs to a proper action, cures constipation, liver and kidney complaint, female weakness, nervous and general debility, and all the distressing miseries from which two-thirds of the women of America are suffering. All invalid ladies should send for our special circular addressed to ladies only, which treats on a subject of vital importance.

Physical Description

Extent

1 print (trade card)

Dimensions

13.3 x 8.9 cm.

Keywords

Genre

trade cards

Medicine, Popular
Girls
Women's Health--Advertisements
Drugs, Non-Prescription--Advertisements
Patent medicines
Women--Diseases--Treatment
Women

Location

United States

Resource type

still image