Thermaline
- Title
- Thermaline
- Description
- Advertisement for Thermaline depicting a bouquet of flowers surrounded by a fancy border. The reverse of the card states that Thermaline is “a carefully prepared combination of the active principals of Calisaya Bark, and a species of the Fever Tree of Australia.” It is recommended as by physicians as “the best substitute yet known” for quinine. This tonic is a remedy for malaria, liver complaint, dyspepsia, general debility, rheumatism, neuralgia, sick headache and other problems. The price is 25 cents per box of capsulets. It is manufactured by Dundas Dick & Co. of New York City. At the bottom in red is “Presented by Fred A. Woodard, Apothecary,” Worcester, Mass.
- Date
- 1870-1890
- Original Format
- trade cards
- Extent
- 8cm x 12cm
- Local Identifier
- LL02.12.01.26.02
- Contributor(s)
- Subject(s)
- Tonics (Medicinal preparations)
- Malaria--Chemotherapy
- Patent medicines
- Advertising
- Cinchona
- Phytotherapy
- Malaria/drug therapy
- Nonprescription Drugs/history
- Plant Preparations/therapeutic use
- 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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