Parker's Tonic
- Title
- Parker's Tonic
- Description
- Advertisement for Parker's Tonic depicting the face of a lovely woman wearing a red and tan bonnet. The words at the bottom are: "It is astonishing how speedily Parker's Tonic restored my health. I can't remember ever feeling so well, and I am perfectly delighted to realize that all my pains, weariness and melancholy have left me. Mrs. A.M.H. Chicago, Ill." In tiny print below the picture is: Wemple & Co., New York. The reverse of the card states that Parker's Hair Balsam restores color, stops the falling of hair and prevent dandruff. Sells for 50 cents and $1.00. Parker's Tonic is a "Perfect and Superlative Health Restorative." It is a cure for coughs, consumption, asthma, colds, bronchitis, heart troubles, female weakness, indigestion, diarrhea, dysentery, rheumatism, malaria, colic and stomach, liver, and kidney diseases. Testimonial included. Large bottles are $1.00. Hindercorns relieves corns, bunions, warts, and callouses. Price is 15 cents. Hiscox & Co., 163 Williams Street, New York.
- Date
- 1870-1890
- Original Format
- trade cards
- Extent
- 7cm x 11cm
- Local Identifier
- LL02.12.01.42.04
- Contributor(s)
- Subject(s)
- Advertising
- Tonics (Medicinal preparations)
- Patent medicines
- Advertising
- Callosities
- Asthma/drug therapy
- Bronchitis/drug therapy
- Colic/drug therapy
- Common Cold/drug therapy
- Cough/drug therapy
- Diarrhea/drug therapy
- Dysentery/drug therapy
- Dyspepsia/drug therapy
- Hair Preparations/therapeutic use
- Kidney Diseases/drug therapy
- Liver Diseases/drug therapy
- Malaria/drug therapy
- Nonprescription Drugs/history
- Rheumatic Diseases/drug therapy
- Stomach Diseases/drug therapy
- Warts/drug therapy
- Spatial
- Location of Original
- Laupus Library History Collections
- Rights
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Patent Medicine Trade Cards
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