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Title: Health Food Company [inscribed]
Alternative Title: Wheatena
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1870 and 1906?]
1870/1906
Publication Information: Boston (Mass.)
Health Food Company
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Medicine and Science
Collection: History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: The back of the card has a picture of a girl wearing a hat and a coat.
Original trade card forms part of: Collection no. 311, History & Special Collections for the Sciences, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA.
The card consists of 2 pages, the text on the front page says: Health Food Company. Head office, New York. Prepares foods for all diseases, and treats the cereals by improved methods, by which all useless waste is discarded and all valuable nutriment conserved in assimilative condition. Wheatena is the best breakfast cereal. It cooks more quickly, digests more perfectly, has a more pleasing flavor and imparts more strength of body and brain than any other cereal food in the world...it includes the address of the company.
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Identifier: https://search.library.ucla.edu/permalink/01UCS_LAL/17p22dp/alma9960994033606533
ark:/21198/zz0002hd58
Language: English
Subject: Girls
Drugs, Non-Prescription--Advertisements
Cereals--Advertisements
Cereals as food
Patent medicines
Health Food--Advertisements
Source: Patent Medicine Trade Cards
History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection

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