Imperial Granum

Item Overview

Title

Imperial Granum

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 children pulling boxes of Imperial Granum off of shelves and eating the contents.

Caption

Imperial Granum, the great medicinal food. The salvator for invalids and the aged. An incomparable aliment for the growth and protection of infants and children. A superior nutritive in continued fevers, and a reliable remedial agent in all diseases of the stomach and intestines. This justly celebrated dietetic preparation is, in composition, principally the gluten derived, by the chemical process, from very superior growths of wheat, and presented with the assurance that it is unquestionably the safest, most nicely prepared and reliable medicinal food that scientific research can yield. It has acquired the reputation of being an aliment the stomach seldom if ever rejects, condition not expected, and, while it would be difficult to conceive of anything in food more delicious, or more soothing and nourishing as an aliment for invalids and for the growth and protection of children, its rare medicinal excellence in inanition, due to mal-assimilation, chronic, gastric, and intestianl diseases, has been incontestably proven; often in instances of consultation over patients whose digestive organs were reduced to such a low and sensitive condition that the granum was the only thing the stomach would tolerate, when life seemed depending on its retention...

Physical Description

Extent

1 print (trade card)

Dimensions

14 x 9.2 cm.

Keywords

Genre

trade cards

Location

United States

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Digestive System Diseases--drug therapy--Advertisements
Children
Dietary supplements
Infants
Patent medicines
Infant formulas