Brown's Iron Bitters [inscribed]

Item Overview

Title

Brown's Iron Bitters [inscribed]

Alternative title

The Best Tonic

Place of Origin

Auburn (Me.)

Language

English

Collection

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

Notes

Description

Description: A brown haired woman wearing a pink floral dress is sitting in a barn holding a wooden pail next to a wooden wheel. She is looking left in this scene Above her is the title “Brown’s Iron Bitters. The Best Tonic” In the lower left hand corner is written information for the use of the this product. In the lower right hand corner there is the name “Mrs. Lanetry” followed by “The Jersey Lily”

Caption

Certain cure for diseases requiring a complete tonic, Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Intermittent Fevers, want of appetite, loss of strength, lack of energy, Malaria and Malarial fevers &c. Enriches the blood, strengthens the muscles and gives new life to the nerves...Brown's Iron Bitters is peculiarly adapted as a thorough tonic for females. Iron to the physical composition is a necessity. In this connection we would add, that a leading Medical Professor recently speaking of the preparations of Iron said: The preparations of Iron which are termed in medicine as Ferruginous or Chalbeate, are by far the most important of all tonics - in fact, there is no tonic, either mineral or vegetable, which meets so many requirements of man. Besides the local tonic effect that Iron is bound to produce, and the general corroborant action on the cerebro-spinal system which it possesses, it exercises a restorative influence on the state of the blood by increasing the number of its coloring particles and the amount of the solid constituents...The effects of Iron are best seen in conditions of the system in which there is a relative want of activity in ther nerves and muscles. Under its use the blood becomes richer, the digestive organs are promoted, the pulse becomes fuller and stronger, the skin assumes a healthy tint, the lips and cheeks grow more florid, the temperature of the body is increased, and the muscular strength greatly invigorated. The red corpuscles of the blood, which are increased by the use of Iron, act as garners of Oxygen, which they take up from the inspired air of the lungs; and it is now generally conceded that Iron taken up in the blood corpuscles converts Oxygen into Ozone, a much more active power than Oxygen, and one that is considered as the greatest destroyer of poisons in the system. The diseases in which Iron is especially serviceable are those which come from want of richness in the blood, strength in the muscles and tone in the nerves, such as Weakness, Inactivity, Depression, Loss of Appetite, Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Neuralgia, Hysteria, and all other diseases so distressing to ladies...it was not until the discovery of Brown's Iron Bitters, that Iron was so prepared that it would readily and thoroughly assimilate with the blood and would not blacken the teeth, cause headache, constipation or other evil effects caused by every other iron preparation. Brown's Iron Bitters is made only by the Brown Chemical Company, of Baltimore, Md., and contains no whiskey or other injurious ingredients.

Physical Description

Extent

1 print (trade card)

Dimensions

11.3 x 7.9 cm.

Keywords

Genre

trade cards

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

Location

United States

Resource type

still image