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Title
Red Cross Cough Drops [inscribed]
Alternative Title
Try me and I do you good
Date Created and/or Issued
[between 1870-1906?]
1870/1906
Publication Information
United States
Contributing Institution
UCLA, Library Special Collections, Medicine and Science
Collection
History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection
Rights Information
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Description
Original trade card forms part of: Collection no. 311, History & Special Collections of the Sciences, Louis M. Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA.
Reverse side of card shows a girl in a wooded country lane with flowers.
Additional card text: Recommended by physicians, and for sale by every druggist in the land. Beware of imitations. See that our trade mark, a red cross, is on every box.
Additional card text: Ask your druggist for the Red Cross Trademark Cough Drops 5c. per box. Over a million boxes sold the first season. Made from chemically pure Loaf Sugar. Containing nothing injurious. The best known remedy in the market for the cure of coughs, colds, sore throat, hoarseness, &c.
Identifier
https://search.library.ucla.edu/permalink/01UCS_LAL/17p22dp/alma9960994033606533
ark:/21198/zz0002hdcc
Language
English
Subject
Girls
Drugs, Non-Prescription--Advertisements
Drug Compounding--Advertisements
Patent medicines
Drug Therapy--Advertisements
Source
Patent Medicine Trade Cards
History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection

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