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Title: Carter's Little Liver Pills always cure sick headache [inscribed]
Alternative Title: Carter's Little Liver Pills
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1880 and 1906?]
1880/1906
Publication Information: United States
Carter Medicine Co
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Medicine and Science
Collection: History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Pencilled in long hand along the left edge of the back of the card: "An Uncommon Vision 8/1/98 $1.70 for 4 items". "Carter's Little Liver Pills" in box near top of back of card with two pointing fingers on each side of box.
On front of card: Mabel: Oh, Harry, my head aches so hard; what shall I do? Harry: Do! Why take CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLs, of course; they will soon stop it.
Original trade card forms part of: Collection no. 311, History & Special Collections for the Sciences, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA.
On back of card: Sick Headache positively cured by Carter's Little Liver Pills. We mean cured, not merely relieved and can prove what we claim...Carter's Little Liver Pills also cure all forms of Biliousness, prevent Constipation and Dyspepsia, promote Digestion, relieve distress from too hearty eating, corect Disorders of the Stomach, Stimulate the Liver, and Regulate the Bowels...They are purely vegetable, do not gripe or purge, and are as nearly perfect as it is possible for a pill to be...
Identifier: https://search.library.ucla.edu/permalink/01UCS_LAL/17p22dp/alma9960994033606533
ark:/21198/zz0002hjpz
Language: English
Subject: Headache--drug therapy--Advertisements
Children
Pain--Treatment
Pain--drug therapy--Advertisements
Tablets--Advertisements
Drugs, Non-Prescription--Advertisements
Headache--Treatment
Couples
Headache--prevention & control--Advertisements
Pain--prevention & control--Advertisements
Patent medicines
Analgesics--therapeutic use--Advertisements
Source: Patent Medicine Trade Cards
History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection

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