Biliousine [inscribed]

Item Overview

Title

Biliousine [inscribed]

Date Created

[between 1870 and 1906?]

Place of Origin

Providence (R.I.)

Publisher

Snow & Earle

Language

English

Collection

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

Notes

Description

Front of card depicts a crowd of men and women entering a store and looking at a window display. The display is labled Biliousine with a hanging sign that reads, "For sale here." There are bottles of Billiousine in the window. A sign hanging outside of the store reads, "Biliousine is a sure cure for sick headache, dyspepsia, constipation, indigestion, sour stomach, heartburn & c."Back of card contains a list of people who will "testify from actual experience."
Original trade card forms part of: Collection no. 311, History & Special Collections for the Sciences, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA.

Caption

Additional text on back of card: Biliousine is a sure cure for Sick Headache, Dyspepsia, Constipation, Indigestion, Sour Stomach, Heartburn, and all kindred diseases...

Physical Description

Extent

1 print (trade card)

Dimensions

8.7 x 11.2 cm.

Keywords

Genre

trade cards

Headache--drug therapy--Advertisements
Constipation--drug therapy--Advertisements
Dyspepsia--drug therapy--Advertisements
Drugs, Non-Prescription--Advertisements
Window displays
Shopping
Indigestion
Patent medicines
People

Location

United States

Resource type

still image