Dr. Grosvenor's Liver Aid [inscribed]

Item Overview

Title

Dr. Grosvenor's Liver Aid [inscribed]

Date Created

[between 1870 and 1906?]

Publisher

Dr. Grosvenor's (Firm)

Language

English

Collection

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

Notes

Description

Front of card depicts two chicks closely approaching each other while a thid stands in the background facing away from the viewer. To the right of the chicks is a sign touting the merits of Dr. Grosvenor's Liver Aid. The card is surrounded by leaves and various flowers. A butterfly rests on the top left corner of the card.
Original trade card forms part of: Collection no. 311, History & Special Collections for the Sciences, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA.

Caption

Back: Reader, if you are suffering from any Liver or Stomach trouble that renders life a martyrdom, be induced to try the Liver Aid. So certain are we that this medicine will cure any case of Constipation, Biliousness, Headache, Liver Complaint, Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Malaria, Rheumatism, or any other disease springing from a deranged Liver or Stomach, that we will cheerfully refund the money if the Liver Aid does not do the work...
Additional text from front of card: Cures sick headache & biliousness. Small doses, prompt effect.

Physical Description

Extent

1 print (trade card)

Dimensions

6.5 x 12.6 cm.

Keywords

Genre

trade cards

Flowers
Liver Diseases--drug therapy--Advertisements
Drugs, Non-Prescription--Advertisements
Liver--Diseases--Treatment
Birds
Gastrointestinal Diseases--drug therapy--Advertisements
Gastrointestinal system--Diseases--Treatment
Patent medicines

Location

United States

Resource type

still image