Subject: Patent medicines / Location: United States - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Original trade card forms part of: Collection no. 311, History & Special Collections for the Sciences, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA.
Date:: [beyween 1847-1871?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Patent Medicine Trade Cards
History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection

Description:: Front of card depicts a boy seating near the box with a dog on it.
Date:: c1899
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Patent Medicine Trade Cards
History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection

Description:: On back of card: ...In nine cases out of ten the source of headache is not in the brain but in the stomach. Indigestion is the most frequent cause. The digestive organs being disordered, they derange the action of the liver, the bowels, the kidneys, and the nerves, and the whole secretive and excretive machinery being as it were thrown out of gear, the brain suffers...This delightful preparation is the best remedy for chronic and periodical headache at present known, and absolutely invaluable as stomachic and gentle cathartic. It quickens the circulation, cools the fevered brow, brings back lustre to the eye; and it is in fact a luxurious draft in which a hundred healthful elements are blended.
Date:: [between 1870-1906?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Patent Medicine Trade Cards
History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection

Description:: Front of card depicts well dressed, attractive young woman holding a basket of grapes. Reverse side contains text.
Date:: c1894
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Patent Medicine Trade Cards
History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection

Description:: Image of an angel blowing a horn and carrying a box of Hood's Sarsaparilla.
Date:: [between 1870 and 1906?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Patent Medicine Trade Cards
History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection

Description:: Original trade card forms part of: Collection no. 311, History & Special Collections for the Sciences, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA.
Date:: [between 1884 and 1889?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Patent Medicine Trade Cards
History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection

Description:: Front of card depicts a girl wearing a dress and cape. She holds a basket with her left arm and a bird is standing on her right index finger as she extends her arm.
Date:: [1884?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Patent Medicine Trade Cards
History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection

Description:: Original trade card forms part of: Collection no. 311, History & Special Collections for the Sciences, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA.
Date:: [between 1870 and 1906?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Patent Medicine Trade Cards
History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection

Description:: Front of card depicts an image of a shaggy dog sitting on a chair beside a sleeping baby in a cradle. Picture implies that one will "sleep like a baby" after taking the advertised headache pills.
Date:: [between 1870 and 1906?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Patent Medicine Trade Cards
History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection

Description:: Front of card depicts a young woman resting in an arm chair by a window wearing a red robe. There is a table next to the chair with a bottle of Bovinine and two glasses, one filled with Bovinine and one with water. When the card is held to the light her eyes appear to open and a bull appears in the window with the words: My life was saved by Bovinine.
Date:: [between 1870 and 1906?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Patent Medicine Trade Cards
History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection

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