David Nicholson's Liquid Bread. A pure extract of malt [inscribed]

Item Overview

Title

David Nicholson's Liquid Bread. A pure extract of malt [inscribed]

Alternative title

Pure extract of malt

Date Created

[ca. 1885?]

Place of Origin

Saint Louis (Mo.)

Publisher

Nicholson, David, 1814-1880

Language

English

Collection

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

Notes

Description

Image from front of card shows a nun pouring the Liquid Bread in a glass for a male patient, who has his left arm in a sling, sitting in an ornate chair. There are stained glass windows in the background.
Original trade card forms part of: Collection no. 311, History & Special Collections for the Sciences, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA.

Caption

Text from back of card: It is a wholesome and delicious effervescing table beverage...It is especially rich in Diatase, a substance which is of the utmost service in converting the starch of the food into sugar and dextrine, and thus rendering it easily assimilable; it is therefore invaluable to Dyspeptics. It is also an unsurpassed tonic; a promoter of appetite, a source of muscular strength, an augmenter of nervous energy and a fat-producing hydro-carbon. To nursing mothers, to children naturally feeble or with vitality impaired by disease, to many troubled with nervous exhaustion and insomnia, to convalescents suffering from malnutrition, to those threatened with pulmonary trouble, and to those already affected with wasting diseases, such as cancer and consumption, it will be found indispensable. In every other respect it fully equals if it does not surpass the various similar preparations of malt now before the public; but in especially two characteristics: the remarkable small quantity of alcohol in its composition (less than 3 percent) and it's extreme palatability, the Liquid Bread far excels them all. It is grateful to invalids with the most delicate stomachs, and taken with relish by ladies of the most fastidious palates...

Physical Description

Extent

1 print (trade card)

Dimensions

14.1 x 10 cm.

Keywords

Genre

trade cards

Nuns
Dyspepsia--drug therapy--Advertisements
Drugs, Non-Prescription--Advertisements
Indigestion
Patent medicines

Location

United States

Resource type

still image