Morison’s Vegetable Pills

Title (Dublin Core): Morison’s Vegetable Pills
Description (Dublin Core): The trade card displays an individual looking into a mirror and realizing their body has changed overnight into a medley of vegetables, after consuming a thousand of Morison’s vegetable pills. More commonly known as Morison’s Pills, the product was immensely popular as a universal cure for all diseases caused by blood impurities. James Morison, the creator of the pills, dominated the patent medicine markets with memorable marketing that advocated vegetable-based and herbal cures over established “heavy metal” drugs.
Identifier (Dublin Core): 2022-JL-PMA-07
Creator (Dublin Core): Morison, James, 1770-1840
Date Created (Dublin Core): 19th century
Medium (Dublin Core): trade cards
Spatial Coverage (Dublin Core): Scotland
Subject (Dublin Core): advertisements; vanities; vegetables; Patent medicines; Drugs, Nonprescription; Herbs--Therapeutic use
Rights (Dublin Core): NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES
Source (Dublin Core): U.S. National Library of Medicine; University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences Library
Relation (Dublin Core): https://library.usa.edu/morisons-vegetable-pills