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Title
Biliousine [inscribed]
Date Created and/or Issued
[between 1870 and 1906?]
1870/1906
Publication Information
Providence (R.I.)
Snow & Earle
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
Front of card depicts a crowd of men and women entering a store and looking at a window display. The display is labled Biliousine with a hanging sign that reads, "For sale here." There are bottles of Billiousine in the window. A sign hanging outside of the store reads, "Biliousine is a sure cure for sick headache, dyspepsia, constipation, indigestion, sour stomach, heartburn & c."Back of card contains a list of people who will "testify from actual experience."
Original trade card forms part of: Collection no. 311, History & Special Collections for the Sciences, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA.
Additional text on back of card: Biliousine is a sure cure for Sick Headache, Dyspepsia, Constipation, Indigestion, Sour Stomach, Heartburn, and all kindred diseases...
Type

Identifier
https://search.library.ucla.edu/permalink/01UCS_LAL/17p22dp/alma9960994033606533
ark:/21198/zz0002hjt1
Language
English
Subject
Headache--drug therapy--Advertisements
Constipation--drug therapy--Advertisements
Dyspepsia--drug therapy--Advertisements
Drugs, Non-Prescription--Advertisements
Window displays
Shopping
Indigestion
Patent medicines
People
Source
Patent Medicine Trade Cards
History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection

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