Brown’s Iron Bitters

Title: Brown’s Iron Bitters
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.
Identifier: 2022-JL-PMA-08
Creator: Brown’s Iron Bitters Company
Date Created: ca. 1880s
Medium: trade cards
Spatial Coverage: Baltimore
Subject: advertisements; photo frames; single-sitter portraits; Women; Patent medicines; Drugs, Nonprescription; Cocaine; Women--Health and hygiene--United States; Malaria
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/browns-iron-bitters-0

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