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Title
Dr. J.H. McLean's Strengthening Cordial and Blood Purifier [inscribed]
Date Created and/or Issued
[between 1870 and 1906?]
1870/1906
Publication Information
Saint Louis (Mo.)
Dr. J. H. McLean
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
Reverse of card is a puzzle game. There is a picture of 2 people huddled in a forest with a building in the background clearing. Hidden inside the lines of the drawing are various animals for the viewer to point out.
Additional card text: Is not a liquor or beverage to be abused, but a great scientific medicine, prepared for weak and convalescing sick and those suffering from Weakness, Nervousness, Bad Blood and Liver Diseases. It will produce pure rich vitalized blood. I ask every reader to try it and be convinced of the miraculous virtues of Dr. J.H. McLean's strengthening cordial and blood purifier. Every druggist in the United States and dealer in medicines keeps it. Will send to you direct, in care of Postmaster or any R.R. Agent (if you will give plain directions): six bottles strengthening cordial, two boxes pills = $5.00, half the above quantity, $3.00. (packed in box free of charge.) - Dr. J.H. McLean's Cough and Lung Healing Globules. The grandest throat and lung remedy in the world. Trial boxes, 25 cts., and $1.00 boxes, by mail. Dr. J.H. McLean's Catarrh Snuff. No pain or sneezing, surely cures Catarrh. Trial boxes, 50 cents, by mail. See almanac for all my medicines. Orders with money, registered letter or post-office drafts will be attended to. Make up your order, remit, and the medicines will be sent to you at once. Dr. J. H. McLean, 314 Chestnut Street, St. Louis, MO.
Additional card text: puzzle card. Find tiger, cow, hog, fish, swan, man on horseback, crab, wolf, horse, lion, camel, giraffe, donkey, frog, ram, and name Dr. J. H. McLean's strengthening cordial and blood purifier.
Identifier
https://search.library.ucla.edu/permalink/01UCS_LAL/17p22dp/alma9960994033606533
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Language
English
Subject
Lungs--Diseases
Nerves
Animals
Liver Diseases--drug therapy--Advertisements
Buildings
Forests
Drugs, Non-Prescription--Advertisements
Liver--Diseases--Treatment
Patent medicines
Cough--drug therapy--Advertisements
Cough--Treatment
People
Throat--Diseases--Treatment
Source
Patent Medicine Trade Cards
History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection

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