Hood's Sarsaparilla

Item Overview

Title

Hood's Sarsaparilla

Date Created

[between 1870 and 1906?]

Date

1870/1906

Language

English

Collection

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

Notes

Description

Image of a girl in a fox-hunting outfit, standing on a crate with the inscription "Take Hood's Sarsaparilla : 100 Does one dollar," and surrounded by hunting dogs.

Caption

100 doses one dollar can only be truthfully applied to Hood's Sarsaparilla, and is an unanswerable argument as to strength and economy. Hood's Sarsaparilla is made from Sarsaparilla, Yello Dock, Wild Cherry, Dandelion, Juniper, Pipsissewa, Stillingia, Mandrake, and other selected roots, barks, and herbs in a combination and by a process peculiar to itself...We sell more Hood's Sarsaparilla than any other Sarsaparilla or blood purifier...If you are suffering from Scrofula, Salt Rheum, Catarrh, Dyspepsia, or any blood disease, and are desirous of more information regarding the value of Hood's Sarsaparilla, we shall be glad to send you, upon receipt of address, a book containing a few of the wonderful cures effected...Appetite poor, bowels all out of order, scrofulous sores on my face and back...My wife has been troubled with indigestion, and her blood has been in a poor condition. She has used several bottles of Hood's Sarsaparilla, and it has been a great benefit to her...

Physical Description

Extent

1 print (trade card)

Dimensions

n.d,

Keywords

Genre

trade cards

Location

United States

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Dogs
Girls
Pharmaceutical Solutions--Advertisements
Drugs, Non-Prescription--Advertisements
Patent medicines