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Title
My life was saved by Bovinine [inscribed]
Alternative Title
Bovinine
Date Created and/or Issued
[between 1870 and 1906?]
1870/1906
Publication Information
Chicago (Ill.)
J.P. Bush Mfg. Co
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
Front of card depicts a young woman resting in an arm chair by a window wearing a red robe. There is a table next to the chair with a bottle of Bovinine and two glasses, one filled with Bovinine and one with water. When the card is held to the light her eyes appear to open and a bull appears in the window with the words: My life was saved by Bovinine.
Original trade card forms part of: Collection no. 311, History & Special Collections for the Sciences, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA.
Additional text from front of card: Hold this card to the light.Additional text from back of card: For overworked and insufficiently nourished people; overtaxed professional and laboring men; exhausted mothers; sickly and feeble infants and children. Old age is rendered comfortable and enjoyable by its daily use. Prescribed by physicians all over the Union. The J.P. Bush Mfg. Co., Chicago and New York.
Type

Identifier
https://search.library.ucla.edu/permalink/01UCS_LAL/17p22dp/alma9960994033606533
ark:/21198/zz0002hf26
Language
English
Subject
Women
Fatigue--Treatment
Pharmaceutical Solutions--Advertisements
Bulls
Drugs, Non-Prescription--Advertisements
Fatigue--drug therapy--Advertisements
Patent medicines
Source
Patent Medicine Trade Cards
History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection

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