Hood's Vegetable Pills

Item Overview

Title

Hood's Vegetable Pills

Date Created

[between 1870 and 1906?]

Language

English

Collection

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

Notes

Description

Image of a young girl, over the inscription "Hood's Vegetable Pills: The Best Family Cathartic"

Caption

...They are purely vegetable, containing no calomel, mercury, or mineral substance of any kind. Being mild and gentle yet efficient in action, they do not purge, pain or gripe. A cold may be quickly broken up by the prompt use of Hood's Vegetable Pills, and a fever may be prevented by their timely use. For constipation and costiveness, nothing can be more satisfactory. they act upon the liver, removing obstructions from the alimentary canal, enable the bowels to resume prompt and healthy action, and keep them in natural condition. Biliousness, sour stomach, headache, jaundice, and liver complaint, are cured by Hood's Vegetable Pills, and persons seriously troubled with constipation find these Pills very valuable to take after dinner...

Physical Description

Extent

1 print (trade card)

Dimensions

12 x 7.9 cm.

Keywords

Headache--drug therapy--Advertisements
Digestive System Diseases--drug therapy--Advertisements
Girls
Patent medicines

Location

United States

Resource type

still image