Ayer's Cathartic Pills, a safe, pleasant and reliable Family Medicine

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Trade card advertising Ayer's Cathartic Pills featuring seven cherubic, naked babies handling oversized pill boxes and such with the words Ayer's Pills on them. Some babies are wrapping the items, some are pasting labels onto them, and some arefilling them with pills. The back has an image of a bottle with name of the manufacturer on it: J.C. Ayer and lists what ailments Ayer's Cathartic Pills cure.

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Title

Ayer's Cathartic Pills, a safe, pleasant and reliable Family Medicine

Product Advertised

Ayer's Cathartic Pills

Manufacturer

Dr. J.C. Ayer & Co. (Lowell (Mass.))

Conditions Cured

Biliousness
Constipation
Dizziness
Headache
Indigestion
Jaundice
Numbness

Subjects

Advertising—Medicine
Babies

Genre

Trade cards

Notes

Some damage on card. Front of card reads: "Ayer's Cathartic Pills, a safe, pleasant and reliable family medicine."

Illustration Technique

Chromolithographs

Height (cm)

6.8

Width (cm)

12

Place

United States

Download

JPEG

Collection

William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

ID

WH121F

Repository

The New York Academy of Medicine