Horsford's Acid Phosphate [inscribed]

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