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Title: Horsford's Acid Phosphate [inscribed]
Alternative Title: It makes a delicious drink with water and sugar only
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1870 and 1906?]
1870/1906
Publication Information: Rumford Chemical Works : LCNAF - CN
Rumford Chemical Works
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: A baby is holding a card advertising Prof. Horsford's Acid Phosphate.
Original trade card forms part of: Collection no. 311, History & Special Collections for the Sciences, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA.
...For mental and physical exhaustion, dyspepsia, &c. It makes a delicious drink with water and sugar only...For dyspepsia, Indigestion, Headache, Mental and Physical Exhaustion, Nervousness, Hysteria, Night Sweats of Consumption, Etc. There seems to be no difference of opinion in high medical authority, of the value of phosphoric acid, and no preparation has ever been offered to the public which seems to so happily meet the general want as this...It is not nauseous, but agreeable to the taste...
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Identifier: https://search.library.ucla.edu/permalink/01UCS_LAL/17p22dp/alma9960994033606533
ark:/21198/zz0002hjqg
Language: English
Subject: Dyspepsia--drug therapy--Advertisements
Drugs, Non-Prescription--Advertisements
Indigestion
Infants
Patent medicines
Source: Patent Medicine Trade Cards
History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection

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