Dr. Harter's Iron Tonic [inscribed]

Item Overview

Title

Dr. Harter's Iron Tonic [inscribed]

Date Created

[between 1870 and 1906?]

Publisher

Dr. Harter Medicine Co.

Language

English

Collection

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

Notes

Description

Front of card depicts a girl emerging from a flower holding a bottle of the iron tonic in one hand and a spoon in the other. She is observing a snail taking flight from the plant, while another snail (without wings) sits on a leaf. It appears that the girl has just served the first snail with the tonic, causing it to sprout wings and take flight. The grounded snail awaits the chance to experience for itself the invigorating properties of the tonic. Reversde side is text only, which shows through the front.
Original trade card forms part of: Collection no. 311, History & Special Collections for the Sciences, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA.

Caption

Additional text from back of card: A blood purifier and tonic for dyspepsia, general debility and female diseases, is recommended and endorsed by Clergymen, Physicians, Lawyers, Merchants, Farmers, &c.
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.

Physical Description

Extent

1 print (trade card)

Dimensions

11.6 x 7.7

Keywords

Genre

trade cards

Asthenia--drug therapy--Advertisements
Asthenia--Treatment
Blood--Diseases--Treatment
Flowers
Girls
Bottles
Dyspepsia--drug therapy--Advertisements
Drugs, Non-Prescription--Advertisements
Indigestion--Treatment
Iron--Therapeutic use
Tonics (Medicinal preparations)
Patent medicines
Hematologic Diseases--drug therapy--Advertisements
Iron--therapeutic use--Advertisements
Snails

Location

United States

Resource type

still image