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Title
Schenck's Mandrake Pills [inscribed]
Date Created and/or Issued
[between 1870 and 1906?]
1870/1906
Publication Information
Philadelphia, Penn
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.
Text on one side. Reverse side is drawing of a bird with a winter scene as a background consisting of holly and a snow covered house. Text reads: Take Schenk's Mandrake pills for all bilious complaints.
...Purely vegetable and strictly reliable. They act directly and promptly on the Liver and Stomach, restoring the constipated organs to healthy activity, and are a positive and perfectly safe cure for Constipation, Liver complaint, Sick Headache, Biliousness and all other diseases arising from a disordered condition of the Liver or Stomach...
Type

Identifier
https://search.library.ucla.edu/permalink/01UCS_LAL/17p22dp/alma9960994033606533
ark:/21198/zz0002hm4n
Language
English
Subject
Mandrakes--Therapeutic use
Holly
Biliary Tract Diseases--drug therapy--Advertisements
Houses
Plant Preparations--Advertisements
Drugs, Non-Prescription--Advertisements
Podophyllum peltatum--Advertisements
Birds
Winter
Biliary tract--Diseases--Treatment
Patent medicines
Source
Patent Medicine Trade Cards
History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection

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