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Title
Alexander's tonic pills [inscribed]
Alternative Title
The great tonic, Alexander's tonic pills, 75 in bottle. Small sugar coated.
Date Created and/or Issued
1888
Publication Information
New York
Alexander Medicine Co
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.
Two panels each has a poster of a little girl. One poster the girl is holding an apple with the word wealth, there are flowers in the background. The other poster is a little girl holding a fan with the words rosy cheeks, there are flowers in the the backgound.
...For loss of appetite, leaness, nervousness, impoverished and impure blood, scrofula, constipation, indigestion, dyspepsia, biliousness, malaria; excellent for leucorrhoea, impotency and general debility; for removing pimples and clearing and beautifying the complexion without an equal; also a sure preventive of chills or fever and ague...Alexander's Cholera Infantum Cure, for all summer complaints in infants and children of 3 years and under, Alexander's Cholera Morbus Cure...Alexander's Ointment for Hemorrhoids...
Type

Identifier
https://search.library.ucla.edu/permalink/01UCS_LAL/17p22dp/alma9960994033606533
ark:/21198/zz0002hkjc
Language
English
Subject
Flowers
Girls
Drugs, Non-Prescription--Advertisements
Fans (Accessories)
Patent medicines
Fruit
Source
Patent Medicine Trade Cards
History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection

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