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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. Front of card has two images. One depicts a wealthy woman inside her house holding her sick baby with a bottle of Porters Cough Balsam on the table. The second depicts a working class woman holding her sick baby and a bottle of Porters Cough Balsam. She sits on the stairs in front of a tenement while her son plays marbles and her daughter sits on a box that displays the name of the product, Porters Cough Balsam. The back of the card is the text with the image of a woman. Madam Porter's Cough Balsam. Favorably known and largely used in New York City and vicinity for over forty years...One of the best, cheapest, and most effectual of remedies. Warranted if used according to directions, to cure or relieve coughs, colds, croup, whooping cough, asthma, and all affections of the throat and lungs. A purely vegetable expectorant; not a violent remedy; and very agreeable to the taste...
Upper class Cough--Treatment Working class Drugs, Non-Prescription--Advertisements Pharmaceutical Preparations--Advertisements Infants Patent medicines Mothers
Source
Patent Medicine Trade Cards History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection
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