Hood's Sarsaparilla
- Title
- Hood's Sarsaparilla
- Description
- The front of the card depicts a young girl wearing her father's red hunting coat, hat, carrying his whip and surrounded by a pack of foxhounds. The following words displays near her feet, "Take Hoods Sarsaparilla, 100 doses, one dollar". The reverse of the card states "100 doses, one dollar" be truthfully applied to Hood's Sarsaparilla as an argument to strength and economy. Sarsaparilla is made from sarsaparilla, yellow dock, wild cherry, dandelion, juniper, pipsissewa, stillingia, mandrake and other selected roots, barks and herbs in a combination and in a process peculiar to itself. If you are suffering from scrofula, salt rheum, catarrh, dyspepsia or any blood disease, and are desirous of more information regarding the value of Hood's Sarsaparilla, we shall be glad to send you, upon receipt of address, a book containing a few of the wonderful cures effected. Four testimonials follow. Statement at bottom, "Hood's Sarsaparilla, sold by druggists, one dollar, six for five dollars, prepared only by C.I. Hood and Co., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass.
- Date
- 1870-1890
- Original Format
- trade cards
- Extent
- 8cm x 12cm
- Local Identifier
- LL02.12.01.07.06
- Contributor(s)
- Subject(s)
- Catarrh
- Children in advertising
- Sarsaparilla
- Scrofula
- Patent medicines
- Advertising
- Smilax
- Common Cold/drug therapy
- Dyspepsia/drug therapy
- Nonprescription Drugs/history
- Tuberculosis, Lymph Node/drug therapy
- Spatial
- Location of Original
- Laupus Library History Collections
- Rights
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Health and Medicine
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Patent Medicine Trade Cards
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- Advertising Collection from the Laupus Library History Collections
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