Alexander's tonic pills [inscribed]

Item Overview

Title

Alexander's tonic pills [inscribed]

Alternative title

The great tonic, Alexander's tonic pills, 75 in bottle. Small sugar coated.

Date Created

1888

Date

1888

Place of Origin

New York

Publisher

Alexander Medicine Co.

Language

English

Collection

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

Notes

Description

Original trade card forms part of: Collection no. 311, History & Special Collections for the Sciences, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA.
Two panels each has a poster of a little girl. One poster the girl is holding an apple with the word wealth, there are flowers in the background. The other poster is a little girl holding a fan with the words rosy cheeks, there are flowers in the the backgound.

Caption

...For loss of appetite, leaness, nervousness, impoverished and impure blood, scrofula, constipation, indigestion, dyspepsia, biliousness, malaria; excellent for leucorrhoea, impotency and general debility; for removing pimples and clearing and beautifying the complexion without an equal; also a sure preventive of chills or fever and ague...Alexander's Cholera Infantum Cure, for all summer complaints in infants and children of 3 years and under, Alexander's Cholera Morbus Cure...Alexander's Ointment for Hemorrhoids...

Physical Description

Extent

1 print (trade card)

Dimensions

8.9 x 5.4 cm.

Keywords

Genre

trade cards

Location

United States

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Flowers
Girls
Drugs, Non-Prescription--Advertisements
Fans (Accessories)
Patent medicines
Fruit