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Title
Hood's Pills [inscribed]
Alternative Title
Hood's Vegetable Pills
Hood's Sarsaparilla
Date Created and/or Issued
[between 1891 and 1910?]
1891/1910
Publication Information
Lowell (Mass.)
C.I. Hood & Co. (Lowell, Mass.)
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 for the Sciences, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA.
The front page of the card has a colored picture of little healthy girl with head in her hands, wearing a blue dress and a bonnet. It reads "Hood's Pills, Cure Liver Ills".
Hood's Pills cure Liver ills. Hood's Pills cure Liver ills. The general tendency of Hood's Sarsaparilla is laxative, but in many cases it is not sufficiently so. And in response to numerous demands for some laxative preparation we have compounded Hood's Vegetable Pills, which are meeting with marked favor. These pills are mild yet efficient, do not cause pain, or gripe, and act with certainty upon the liver, removing all obstructions from the alimentary canal, and preventing all diseases arising from derangements of the liver and bowels. They are especially valuable as after-dinner pills, and readily cure constipation and costiveness, nausea, distress in the stomach, etc. They are purely vegetable, and contain no calomel, mercury, or mineral substance of any kind...
Identifier
https://search.library.ucla.edu/permalink/01UCS_LAL/17p22dp/alma9960994033606533
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Language
English
Subject
Digestive System Diseases--drug therapy--Advertisements
Stomach--Diseases--Treatment
Girls
Constipation--drug therapy--Advertisements
Laxatives--therapeutic use--Advertisements
Nausea--drug therapy--Advertisements
Drugs, Non-Prescription--Advertisements
Liver--Diseases--Treatment
Digestive organs--Diseases--Treatment
Patent medicines
Liver Diseases--drug therapy--Advertisements
Source
Patent Medicine Trade Cards
History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection

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