Horsford's Acid Phosphate [inscribed]
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Item Overview
- Title
- Horsford's Acid Phosphate [inscribed]
- Alternative title
- It makes a delicious drink with water and sugar only
- Date Created
- [between 1870 and 1906?]
- Place of Origin
- Rumford Chemical Works : LCNAF - CN
- Publisher
- Rumford Chemical Works
- Language
- English
- Collection
-
Patent Medicine Trade Cards
History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection
Notes
- Description
-
A baby is holding a card advertising Prof. Horsford's Acid Phosphate.
Original trade card forms part of: Collection no. 311, History & Special Collections for the Sciences, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA. - Caption
- ...For mental and physical exhaustion, dyspepsia, &c. It makes a delicious drink with water and sugar only...For dyspepsia, Indigestion, Headache, Mental and Physical Exhaustion, Nervousness, Hysteria, Night Sweats of Consumption, Etc. There seems to be no difference of opinion in high medical authority, of the value of phosphoric acid, and no preparation has ever been offered to the public which seems to so happily meet the general want as this...It is not nauseous, but agreeable to the taste...
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 print (trade card)
- Dimensions
- 12.5 x 7.8 cm.
Keywords
- Genre
- trade cards
-
Dyspepsia--drug therapy--Advertisements
Drugs, Non-Prescription--Advertisements
Indigestion
Infants
Patent medicines - Location
- United States
- Resource type
- still image
Find This Item
- Repository
- Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library. History and Special Collections for the Sciences
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz0002hjqg
- Opac url
- https://search.library.ucla.edu/permalink/01UCS_LAL/17p22dp/alma9960994033606533
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- public domain