Ayer’s Cathartic Pills

Title: Ayer’s Cathartic Pills
Description: The trade card shows a battle involving two military soldiers fighting on horseback, with one soldier holding a flag that has “Ayer’s Pills” written on it. “The Fight for the Standard” is written on the bottom of the card. The product was marketed to cure a wide variety of health conditions such as digestive issues, liver disorders, and numbness. Ayer’s Pills were even advertised to cure women’s menstrual ailments, diagnosing them as symptomatic of “wrong livers.”
Identifier: 2022-JL-PMA-04
Creator: J. C. Ayer & Company
Date Created: 1844-1878
Medium: trade cards
Spatial Coverage: Massachusetts
Subject: advertisements; Patent medicines; Drugs, Nonprescription; battlefields; Military uniforms; Digestive organs; Liver--Diseases
Rights: NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES
Source: U.S. National Library of Medicine; University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences Library
Relation: https://library.usa.edu/ayers-cathartic-pills