Tarrant's Seltzer Aperient [inscribed]

Item Overview

Title

Tarrant's Seltzer Aperient [inscribed]

Alternative title

Tarrant's Effervescent Seltzer

Date Created

[between 1870 and 1906?]

Date

1870/1906

Place of Origin

United States

Publisher

Tarrant & Company

Language

English

Collection

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

Notes

Description

Original trade card forms part of : Collection no.311, History & Special Collections for the Sciences, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library UCLA.

Caption

On back of card:A mild, pleasant and efficacious remedy in all diseases arising from a disordered stomach, liver or bowels. Teaspoonful in a tumbler of water ... corrects sour stomach, relieves vomiting... a large Teaspoonful, take as above, cure sick headache, indigestion... Two Teaspoonfull... cleansing the bowels without violence or pain.
On front of card: Use Tarrant's Seltzer Aperient to regulate the stomach, the liver, the bowels. To cure indigestion, biliousness, constipation. Tarrant's Effervescent Seltzer Aperient. A mild, pleasant and efficacious remedy in all diseases arising from a disordered stomach, liver or bowels. A teaspoonful in a tumbler of water, makes a delicious effervescing draught which corrects Sour Stomach, relieves Vomiting, allays Fever, acts on the Kidneys and Cures Skin Eruptions arising from impure or over-heated blood. A large teaspoonful, taken as above, cures Sick Headache, Indigestion and removes the evil effects of errors in eating and drinking. Two teaspoonfuls in a tumbler of water, acts as a prompt and efficient Aperient, thoroughly cleansing the Bowels without violence or pain.

Physical Description

Extent

1 print (trade card)

Dimensions

n.d.

Keywords

Genre

trade cards

Location

United States

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Children
Pain--Treatment
Pain--drug therapy--Advertisements.
Drugs, Non-Prescription--Advertisements
Indigestion
Infants
Patent medicines
Dyspepsia--drug therapy--Advertisements.