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Front of card depicts a picture of a personified leaf smoking a cigar and sitting down in a fine chair outdoors. Leaf has a profiled face of a smug man and is blowing smoke out of its mouth and gazing towards the left. Card suggests that taking the advertised tonic will lead to a good and successful life. The back of the card describes all the applications and uses of the tonic as well as the price and where to find it. Original trade card forms part of: Collection no. 311, History & Special Collections for the Sciences, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA. Front: A Good Smoking Leaf. There's Life in Every Drop! Dr. Petzold's German Bitters. [over] Back: The World's Great Tonic! for Malaria, Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Weakness, Loss of Appetite, Nervousness, Diarrhoea, Sick stomach, Cholera Morbus, Chlorea, Cholic, Cramps, Nausea, Biliousness, General debility, Asthma, Fever and Ague, and Kidney troubles. This great tonic is endorsed and prescribed by over one hundred of the most prominent physicians of Maryland, Pennsylvania and District of Columbia...
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