Use Dr. Kilmer's Prompt Parilla Liver Pills [inscribed]

Item Overview

Title

Use Dr. Kilmer's Prompt Parilla Liver Pills [inscribed]

Date Created

[between 1870 and 1906?]

Date

1870/1906

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 mock trial involving a group of farm animals and woodland creatures putting a box of pills on trial. Card implies that nature has evaluated the remedy. Back of card lists all the diseases and illnesses the pill can remedy.

Caption

Front: Dr. Kilmer's Standard Herbal Remedies. A trial by jury.
Back:...By every feature I can see, you're billious to high degree, you're losing snap and losing weight, your pulse run at a railroad rate. In "nature's remedy" here behold, a certain cure for young and old. The constipation will depart, the indigestion quickly start, and soon sick headache will subside, when Prompt Parilla Pills are tried. One pill every night will cure obstinate and painful constipation. One pill at bedtime will cure a headache. One pill as a dinner pill, will cure distress after eating. One pill, occasionally, will increase your appetite. One pill at night will remove bad taste in the mouth. One pill daily, or every other day, will cure dizziness. One pill will cure drowsiness when such spells come on. One or two pills will cure billious or sick headache, or sour stomach. One pill daily, or every other day, will remove the yellow skin. One pill daily, or every other day, for torpid liver, acts like magic. Full dose will break up billious attacks. As a cathartic these pills, in doses of 2 to 4 operate thoroughly...

Physical Description

Extent

1 print (trade card)

Dimensions

7.6 x 13 cm.

Keywords

Genre

trade cards

Location

United States

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Headache--drug therapy--Advertisements
Pain--Treatment
Constipation--drug therapy--Advertisements
Pharmaceutical Solutions--Advertisements
Pain--prevention & control--Advertisements.
Forests
Drugs, Non-Prescription--Advertisements
Pills
Patent medicines
Headache--prevention & control--Advertisements.
Judicial proceedings
Pain--drug therapy--Advertisements.
Farm animals