Carter's Little Liver Pills always cure sick headache [inscribed]

Item Overview

Title

Carter's Little Liver Pills always cure sick headache [inscribed]

Alternative title

Carter's Little Liver Pills

Date Created

[between 1880 and 1906?]

Date

1880/1906

Place of Origin

United States

Publisher

Carter Medicine Co.

Language

English

Collection

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

Notes

Description

Pencilled in long hand along the left edge of the back of the card: "An Uncommon Vision 8/1/98 $1.70 for 4 items". "Carter's Little Liver Pills" in box near top of back of card with two pointing fingers on each side of box.

Caption

On front of card: Mabel: Oh, Harry, my head aches so hard; what shall I do? Harry: Do! Why take CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLs, of course; they will soon stop it.
Original trade card forms part of: Collection no. 311, History & Special Collections for the Sciences, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA.
On back of card: Sick Headache positively cured by Carter's Little Liver Pills. We mean cured, not merely relieved and can prove what we claim...Carter's Little Liver Pills also cure all forms of Biliousness, prevent Constipation and Dyspepsia, promote Digestion, relieve distress from too hearty eating, corect Disorders of the Stomach, Stimulate the Liver, and Regulate the Bowels...They are purely vegetable, do not gripe or purge, and are as nearly perfect as it is possible for a pill to be...

Physical Description

Extent

1 print (trade card)

Dimensions

10.8 x 7.2 cm.

Keywords

Genre

trade cards

Location

United States

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Headache--drug therapy--Advertisements
Children
Pain--Treatment
Pain--drug therapy--Advertisements.
Tablets--Advertisements
Drugs, Non-Prescription--Advertisements
Headache--Treatment
Couples
Headache--prevention & control--Advertisements.
Pain--prevention & control--Advertisements.
Patent medicines
Analgesics--therapeutic use--Advertisements