Vegetine [inscribed]

Item Overview

Title

Vegetine [inscribed]

Date Created

[between 1871 and 1889]

Place of Origin

Boston (Mass.)

Publisher

H.R. Stevens (Firm)

Language

English

Collection

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

Notes

Description

Front of card depicts a large honey bee is flying toward a boy crawling and a girl running, who has let go of an umbrella she was carrying. All figures are honey-colored and the background is blue.
Original trade card forms part of: Collection no. 311, History & Special Collections for the Sciences, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA.

Caption

Nature's remedy. Vegetine, the great blood purifier. Purifies the Blood, renovates and invigorates the whole system. Its medicinal qualities are alterative, tonic, solvent and diuretic ... Vegetine in powder form is sold by all druggists and general stores ...

Physical Description

Extent

1 print (trade card)

Dimensions

7.3 x 11.1 cm.

Keywords

Genre

trade cards

Girls
Bees
Drugs, Non-Prescription--Advertisements
Hematologic Diseases--prevention & control--Advertisements
Umbrellas
Boys
Patent medicines
Blood--Diseases--Prevention

Resource type

still image