Antikamnia Tablets [inscribed]

Item Overview

Title

Antikamnia Tablets [inscribed]

Alternative title

Antikamnia Chemical Company

Date Created

1909

Place of Origin

Saint Louis (Mo.)

Publisher

Antikamnia Chemical Company

Language

English

Collection

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

Notes

Description

Front of card depicts a young girl smelling a white lily while staring out of a window. The word 'purity' appears next to the girl. Back of card is divided into three sections. Back left segment lists diseases and dosages; back center segment shows a 12-month calendar; back right segment has two paragraphs entitled: "to treat a cough" and "when women suffer."

Caption

...For Headaches, Neuralgias and Grippe...Antikamnia Tablets...When to take them: All Pain, Cold in the Head, Dissipation-effects, Facial Neuralgia, Fever, Headache (Indigestion), Headache (Menstrual), Headache (Nervous, Indoor), Heat Effects (Sun Pains), Hiccough, Flatulency, Neuralgia, Overwork, Excesses, Rheumatic Pain, Sea and Car Sickness, Shopper's or Sightseer's Headache, Summer Colds, Toothache, Earache, Vomiting (Pregnancy), Women's Pains, Worry (Nervousness)...To treat a cough: Antikamnia & Codeine Tablets are most useful. It matters not whether it be a deep-seated cough, tickling cough, hacking cough, nervous cough, or whatever its character, it can be brought under prompt control by these tablets...

Physical Description

Extent

1 print (trade card)

Dimensions

14.6 x 12.2 cm.

Keywords

Genre

trade cards

Pain--Treatment
Girls
Pain--drug therapy--Advertisements.
Tablets--Advertisements
Drugs, Non-Prescription--Advertisements
Lilies
Patent medicines
Women--Diseases--Treatment

Location

United States

Resource type

still image