Parker's tonic : the best health & strength restorer in the world : are you in need of a stimulant? Parker's Tonic will invigorate you without intoxicating / Hiscox & Co.
- Hiscox & Co.
- Date:
- [between 1870 and 1879?]
- Ephemera
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Chromolitho card possibly dating from the late 1870s advertising Parker's Tonic, Parker's Hair Balsam and Floreston Cologne. It would have been handed out inside a store. The Tonic was supposed to cure "dyspepsia, neuralgia, sour stomach, wakefulness, rising of the food, yellow skin... blood foul with humours... frequent pains in your head, back and limbs... stomach, kidneys or liver [disease]... coughs, consumption, asthma, colds, bronchitis... indigestion, diarrhoea, dysentery, rheumatism, chills, malaria, colic, and cramps" and was "a perfect and superlative health restorative." The illustrations show a dispairing young man in a blue coat and yellow trousers in a wooden chair at a table, dog below it and another of a robust man in yellow jacket and blue trousers at a well laid table with his wife saying "Yes it is all it claims".
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Location Status Access Closed storesEPH351Location Access Closed storesEPH351:20Note