Best Tonic
- Title
- Best Tonic
- Description
- Advertisement for Best Tonic depicting a lady in a blue gown holding up her right hand and holding down her left hand with a scroll. Written on the scroll is: The Best Tonic invigorating and Nutritious. Insures a healthy appetite. Aids digestion and Strengthens the system. A sash around her waist has the word "Hygeia". Across the top is: The Best Tonic. Across the bottom is: A Concentrated Liquid Extract of Malt and Hops. At the bottom lower right in tiny print is: Julius Bien & Co., Lith. The reverse of the card states that The Best Tonic "cures dyspepsia, strengthens the system, priceless to nursing mothers, the most wholesome table beverage".
- Date
- 1870-1890
- Original Format
- trade cards
- Extent
- 7cm x 12cm
- Local Identifier
- LL02.12.01.67.01
- Contributor(s)
- Subject(s)
- Advertising
- Tonics (Medicinal preparations)
- Patent medicines
- Advertising
- Dyspepsia/drug therapy
- Nonprescription Drugs/history
- Spatial
- Location of Original
- Laupus Library History Collections
- Rights
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Laupus Health Sciences History Collections
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Health and Medicine
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Manufacturing and Business
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Patent Medicine Trade Cards
- Location of Original
- Advertising Collection from the Laupus Library History Collections
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