Dr. Copp's White Mountain Anti-bilious Bitters [inscribed]

Item Overview

Title

Dr. Copp's White Mountain Anti-bilious Bitters [inscribed]

Alternative title

Dr. Copp's Bitters

Date Created

[between 1870 and 1906?]

Date

1870/1906

Place of Origin

Manchester (N.H.)

Publisher

Dr. J. Copp & Co.

Language

English

Collection

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

Notes

Description

Front of card depicts a red-haired man with a beard and a straw hat fishing while sitting on a rock on the shore. He has an irritable expression on his face. A lobster is seated to his right, holding up the fishing rod. An open picnic basket with a red blanket sits to his left. On the other side of the basket, four sea birds scavange for food in the sand, while a dozen more birds fly in the distant sky. Reversde side is text only.
Original trade card forms part of: Collection no. 311, History & Special Collections for the Sciences, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA.

Caption

On the reverse side of the card "2 -" is written in pencil in the top right corner and "77-16 AS" is written in the bottom right corner.
Additional card text: A never failing remedy for Liver complaint, Dyspepsia, Sick Headache, Fever and Ague, Salt Rheum, Fits, Sour Stomach, Piles, Chronic Diarrhea, Kidney disease, Coughs, Colds, and all the diseases caused by an impure state of the blood.

Physical Description

Extent

1 print (trade card)

Dimensions

6.5 x 12.1 cm.

Keywords

Genre

trade cards

Location

United States

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Lobsters
Hematologic Diseases--drug therapy--Advertisements
Blood--Diseases--Treatment
Fishing
Liver Diseases--drug therapy--Advertisements
Bitters--Therapeutic use
Drugs, Non-Prescription--Advertisements
Men
Liver--Diseases--Treatment
Patent medicines
Baskets
Birds