Subject Topic: Dyspepsia--drug therapy--Advertisements. - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Picture on front of card depicts a young woman looking out of a window at a bird. There is no glass and her left hand is extended out the window and resting on a ledge. There are flowering plants on either side of the window on the ledge. It appears to be in the country side and there appears to be a city with skyscrapaers in the distance.
Date:: [between 1880 and 1906?]
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:: The card presents a picture of a beautiful lady whose posing for the picture , she is wearing a hat, wearing a very nice makeup, she is putting her left hand by her chin, the lady has a flower in her left hand, she is also wearing jewelery like a bracelet.The poster also says that the parker's tonic brings the bloom of health to the cheek and delight to the heart.
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 1870 and 1906?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Patent Medicine Trade Cards
History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection

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