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: Two young boys sit in a wooden wagon while being pulled by a young girl. One boy with black curly hair is wearing a blue shirt and holding a closed red umbrella in his right hand. The other boy has blonde hair and wears a gray hat, while scratching his head with his right hand. The young girl has black hair and wears a red/yellow dress along with black shoes.

Caption

Invalid ladies this is for you...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

7.1 x 10.7 cm.

Keywords

Genre

trade cards

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

Location

United States

Resource type

still image