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Original trade card forms part of: Collection no. 311, History & Special Collections for the Sciences, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA. A young girl is dancing in front of a man in a chair who is playing an accordion. For mental and physical exhaustion, dyspepsia, &c. It makes a delicious drink with water and sugar only. For dyspepsia, Indigestion, Headache, Mental and Physical Exhaustion, Nervousness, Hysteria, Night Sweats of Consumption, Etc. This is a preparation of the phosphates of lime, magnesia, potash and iron with phosphoric acid, in such form as to be readily assimilated by the system...Horsford's Acid Phosphate makes a delicious, invigorating and healthful summer drink, and its action will harmonize with such stimulants as are necessary to take. It has also gained prominence as a useful agent to employ in Cholera. By the researches of Dr. Koch, it is now known that acids are most useful to kill the cholera microbe, and have been successfully employed by the profession in Europe...The Acid Phosphate taken as recommended, will also tend to invigorate the system and correct debility, thus giving increased power of resistance to disease.
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