The genuine Dr. C. McLane's Liver Pills are a sure cure for sick head-ache [inscribed]

Item Overview

Title

The genuine Dr. C. McLane's Liver Pills are a sure cure for sick head-ache [inscribed]

Alternative title

Dr. C. McLane's Vermifuge

Date Created

[between 1870 and 1906?]

Date

1870/1906

Place of Origin

Pittsburg (Lancaster County, Pa.)

Publisher

Fleming Bros.

Language

English

Collection

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

Notes

Description

Front of card depicts a daisy plant of six flowers and various leaves. The daisy petals are white with pink edges. A branch of three pine cones lies beneath on the verdant ground. Reverse side is text only.
Original trade card forms part of: Collection no. 311, History & Special Collections for the Sciences, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA.

Caption

Back: ...And in a like manner have I found Dr. C. McLane's Vermifuge to operate upon worms, those dreadful and dangerous tormentors of children. This remedy, like the ferret, enters the aperture of the mouth, travels down the gullet, hunts round the stomach and lays hold of the worms, shakes the life out of the reptiles, sweeps clean their den, and carries their carcasses clear out of the system...

Physical Description

Extent

1 print (trade card)

Dimensions

13.8 x 10.1 cm.

Keywords

Genre

trade cards

Location

United States

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Headache--drug therapy--Advertisements
Daisies
Liver Diseases--drug therapy--Advertisements
Helminthiasis--drug therapy--Advertisements
Drugs, Non-Prescription--Advertisements
Headache--Treatment
Helminthiasis--Treatment
Tablets--therapeutic use--Advertisements
Patent medicines