Wright's Indian Vegetable Pill Company
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Pharmaceutical trade cards
Collection
Identifier: MS-1008
Abstract
This artificially assembled collection contains trade cards from the late 19th century advertising pharmaceutical products for health and beauty applications. Some include opium and cocaine as ingredients.
Dates:
1880 - 1899
Found in:
Special Collections
Wright's Indian Vegetable Pill Company pharmaceutical products, circa 1880s
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31151034395388], Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
This late 19th century trade card for five different pharmaceutical products features a color image of a singing bird on a branch. On the reverse, with the tagline "These preparations are all Wright," the card advertises the following: Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills for "constipation, fevers, biliousness, etc.", Crossmann's Specific Mixture for "blood troubles", McMunn's Elixir of Opium for "sleeplessness, nervous irritation, etc.", Peery's Dead Shot Vermifuge as an anti-parasite drug, and...
Dates:
circa 1880s
Found in:
Special Collections
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Pharmaceutical trade cards
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- Subject
- Health 1
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