Details
Contributor Jackson, C.M., publisher.
Title Doct. Hoofland's celebrated German bitters, for the permanent cure of liver complaint, jaundice, dyspepsia, nervous debility, asthma, disease of the kidneys, and all diseases arising from a disordered liver or stomach [graphic] : Haupt Depot, German medicine store, 631 Arch St.
Publisher Philadelphia: C. M. Jackson
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1861
Date [printed ca. 1861], c1848
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 18 x 17 cm.(7 x 6.75 in.)
Description Label for the patent medicine showing a medieval scene in the wilderness. Depicts a medieval soldier leaning against a tree and his shield. An ax and club rest beneath him. The soldier wears a pony tail and chest plate. Also contains advertising text in German in the side borders. The bitters, named after the German physician Christoph Wilhem Hoofland (Hufeland), entered the United States market in the 1840s.
Notes Printed in lower border: Genuine Signed. C.M. Jackson. Philadelphia.
Date of printing based on business address advertised.
C. M. Jackson began marketing bitters in the United States about 1848. He operated from 418 Arch Street 1858-1859, and then 631 Arch Street. Jones & Evans assumed operations of the office and factory circa 1862.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Hoofland, Christoph Wilhelm, 1762-1836.
Patent medicines.
Nonprescription drug industry.
Soldiers.
Genre Lithographs -- 1860-1870.
Labels -- 1860-1870.
Printer Jackson, C.M., publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.190c]
Accession number P.9349.190c