Jayne's Tonic Vermifuge [inscribed]

Item Overview

Title

Jayne's Tonic Vermifuge [inscribed]

Alternative title

Naughty puss!

Date Created

[between 1870 and 1906?]

Place of Origin

Arcola (Tex.)

Language

English

Collection

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

Notes

Description

A cat is clawing at a little girl's dress.
Original trade card forms part of: Collection no. 311, History & Special Collections for the Sciences, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA.

Caption

...for we will then be sure that the current issue will be accepted as an agreeable medium for impressing on all that when once a Cold is contracted, it should have prompt treatment, or the Cough may so rack and inflame the Lungs that tubercles will form, and incipient Consumption, instead of a simple Cold, have to be dealt with. If you will try in such a case, Dr. Jayne's Expectorant - using small doses, and repeating according to the urgency of the symptoms - your expectoration will soon become loose, any tendency to inflammation will be allayed, and the cold soon disappear. If Bronchitis, Sore Throat, or any Bronchial disorder manifest itself, the Expectorant detaches the mucous matter adhering to the lining membrane of the throat; subdues inflammation, and soon removes the difficulty of swallowing or breathing. In cases of Asthma, the Expectorant should be taken in doses sufficient to produce a slight nausea; its action then being the more certain to overcome the cause of the trouble - the contraction of bronchial tubes. For Pleurisy or any Acute Inflammation of Lungs or Throat, take the Expectorant according to directions, rub the parts affected thoroughly with Dr. Jayne's Liniment, and cover up warmly in bed. In Consumption, the Expectorant, in very small doses, will ameliorate most of the symptoms, and especially relieve the cough, as well as the oppression and soreness of the lungs and throat. For Croup and Whooping Cough also, it is a most helpful medicine, the violence of the attacks being checked, and the attending distress effectually relieved. Jayne's Tonic Vermifuge has proven to be the best and safest Worm medicine for children, as well as one of the surest tonics for children or adults, and a reliable remedy for Dyspepsia in either...

Physical Description

Extent

1 print (trade card)

Dimensions

11.7 x 7.8 cm.

Keywords

Genre

trade cards

Anthelmintics--therapeutic use--Advertisements.
Drugs, Non-Prescription--Advertisements
Patent medicines
Cats

Location

United States

Resource type

still image