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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 depicts a hunter shooting at a horse carriage with one of his dogs standing beside him. Another dog lunges at the carriage inches away from attacking the carriage. The carriage's occupants include a frightened mother protectively holding her child close and a driver who lashes his whip at the carriage's two horses, in an attempt to hurry them all out of harm's way. Reverse side is text only. Back: Dr. Hunter's family medicines give universal satisfaction. Try them and convince yourself of their merits. Dr. Hunter's Expectorant will cure a cough or cold quicker and better than anything else.... Dr. Hunter's Worm Chocolates will save the lives of little ones from violent convulsions, and probably death, by removing all kinds of worms that congregate in the intestinal canal.... Dr. Hunter's Compound Fluid Extract of Sarsaprilla, the little old reliable blood purifier, has been used for years with the utmost success in all affections of the blood and eruptions of the skin.... Dr. Hunter's Liver Pills are used expressly for the cure of biliousness, constipations, torpidity of the liver, and all the derangements of the system at large.... Dolorine, the greatest medical discovery of the age. It is truly called the magic headache and neuralgia cure.... "$5 (as is)" is written in pencil towards the upper right corner on the reverse side. Front: Dr. Hunter's Expectorant is positively the best remedy for coughs & colds. Try it and convince yourself.
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