Brown’s Iron Bitters
Item
- Title
- Brown’s Iron Bitters See all items with this value
- Description
- The trade card shows a woman behind broken glass. Cocaine was a known ingredient in this product. As the trade card indicates, health claims for this product included curing “malaria, dyspepsia & female infirmities.” The product was also marketed to cure a variety of maladies such as lack of energy, nervous prostration, and fainting. See all items with this value
- Identifier
- 2022-JL-PMA-08 See all items with this value
- Creator
- Brown’s Iron Bitters Company
- Date Created
- ca. 1880s See all items with this value
- Medium
- trade cards
- Spatial Coverage
- Baltimore
- Subject
- advertisements See all items with this value
- photo frames See all items with this value
- single-sitter portraits See all items with this value
- Women See all items with this value
- Patent medicines See all items with this value
- Drugs, Nonprescription See all items with this value
- Cocaine See all items with this value
- Women--Health and hygiene--United States See all items with this value
- Malaria See all items with this value
- Rights
- NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES
- Source
- U.S. National Library of Medicine See all items with this value
- University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences Library See all items with this value
- Relation
- https://library.usa.edu/browns-iron-bitters-0
- Media
- Brown’s Iron Bitters
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