Use Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Root Kidney Liver & Bladder Cure [inscribed]

Item Overview

Title

Use Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Root Kidney Liver & Bladder Cure [inscribed]

Date Created

[between 1870 and 1906?]

Place of Origin

Binghamton (N.Y.)

Publisher

Dr. Kilmer & Co.

Language

English

Collection

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

Notes

Description

Original trade card forms part of: Collection no. 311, History & Special Collections for the Sciences, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA.
Front of card depicts a horse-drawn cart on a country trail heading towards a wooded area. The back of the card contains a large amount of text describing the symptoms and conditions of the product.

Caption

Back:...If you are threatened with or already have Bright's disease, or urinary trouble. If you have sediment in urine like brick dust, frequent calls or retention, with distress or pressure in the parts, limbs bloat, if you have Lame Back, Rheumatism, stinging, Aching Pains in side or hips, if you have Diabetes or Dropsy, body bloat, or scanty or high colored urine, if you have Malaria, Torpid Liver, Dyspepsia, Gall Stone, fever and Ague or Gout, if you have Irritation, Spasmodic Stricture, or Catarrh of the Bladder, if you have Blood humors, Pimples, Ulcers, Seminal Weakness or Syphilis, if you have Stone in Kidney, Gravel in Bladder, Stoppage of urine or Dribbling, if you have poor Appetite, Bad Taste, Foul breath or internal Slime Fever...

Physical Description

Extent

1 print (trade card)

Dimensions

7.7 x 13 cm.

Keywords

Genre

trade cards

Malaria
Country life
Constipation--drug therapy--Advertisements
Horses
Pharmaceutical Solutions--Advertisements
Farmhouses
Pain--drug therapy--Advertisements.
Antirheumatic Agents--Advertisements
Drugs, Non-Prescription--Advertisements
Back Pain--drug therapy--Advertisements
Backache--Treatment
Blood--Diseases
Carts & wagons
Pain--Treatment
Pain--prevention & control--Advertisements.
Patent medicines

Location

United States

Resource type

still image