| Contributor |
P.S. Duval & Co., printer. |
| Title |
Dr. George Stuart's botanical syrup and vegetable pills, the greatest family medicine in the world. [graphic] : Laboratory
no. 254, Race St. Philadelphia.
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| Publisher |
Philadelphia: P. S. Duval's steam lith. press |
| Publisher |
PA. Philadelphia. 1849 |
| Date |
[April 1849] |
| Physical Description |
1 print: lithograph; 86 x 57 cm. (34.25 x 22.63 in.) |
| Description |
Advertisement containing an exterior view of the three-and-one-half story storefront on the 700 block of Race Street bordered
by paragraphs of advertising text, including notice of prices that ranged from 25 cents to one dollar per box or bottle. Signage
above the large central showcase window lists several diseases and ailments cured by "Dr. G. Stuart's Syrup and Vegetable
Pills." Infirmities include consumption, dysentery, chills and fevers, piles, colds, coughs, bronchitis, "tumours," "erysipelas,"
neuralgia, and "general and nervous debility &c. &c." Shadowy views of branches, leaves, and decanters are visible in the
window. Several male character types, of different ages, class, and ethnicity, holding banners inscribed with testimonials,
gather around laborers loading a "Botanical [Syr]up" crate onto a horse-drawn wagon in front of the store. Figures include
a dandy, Quaker, father and son, and a Native American, many of whom also hold bottles. The testimonials cite the customer's
supplying of certificates of cure and their attesting to Dr. Stuart's syrup and pills as cures for cancer, dyspepsia, scrofula,
and colds. Paragraphs of advertising text promote "Vegetable Pills, composed entirely of herbs" that were "intended to operate....on
the whole system"; "Rheumatic Liniment," which has been used by the medical Faculty in cases of small pox..."; "Vermifuge
for Worms, made with particular reference to children"; "Botanical Syrup composed entirely of herb & free minerals," that
"in no instance ever failed to do what it was intended to accomplish"; and "Pile & Cancer Salve" that are the "best remedies
that were ever in use..." Advertisement also includes two large-scale details showing bottles inscribed with product advertisements
for "Dr. Stuart's Rheumatic Liniment," "Cancer salve," "Salve Sure Cure for Piles Price $1 per Box," "Botanical Syrup" and
"Dr. Stuart's Vegetable Pills."
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Paragraphs of advertising text promote "Vegetable Pills, composed entirely of herbs" that were "intended to operate....on
the whole system"; "Rheumatic Liniment," which has been used by the medical Faculty in cases of small pox..."; "Vermifuge
for Worms, made with particular reference to children"; "Botanical Syrup composed entirely of herb & free minerals," that
"in no instance ever failed to do what it was intended to accomplish"; and "Pile & Cancer Salve" that are the "best remedies
that were ever in use..." Advertisement also includes two large-scale details showing bottles inscribed with product advertisements
for "Dr. Stuart's Rheumatic Liniment," "Cancer salve," "Salve Sure Cure for Piles Price $1 per Box," "Botanical Syrup" and
"Dr. Stuart's Vegetable Pills."
|
| Is referenced by |
Wainwright 98 |
| Notes |
Date from Poulson inscription on recto. |
|
Philadelphia on Stone |
|
POS 187 |
|
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited. |
| Subject |
Stuart, George. |
|
Patent medicines -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Nonprescription drug industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Indians of North America -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Dandies -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Men -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Laborers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Carts & wagons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
|
Endorsements in advertising. |
| Geographic subject |
Race Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 700 block. |
| Genre |
Lithographs -- 1840-1850. |
|
Advertisements -- 1840-1850. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| **W98 [P.2147] |
| Accession number |
P.2147 |
