Photo, Print, Drawing Doctor George Stuart's Botanical Syrup and Vegetable Pills, the Greatest Family Medicine in the World. Dr. George Stuart's botanical syrup and vegetable pills, the greatest family medicine in the world

Title

• Doctor George Stuart's Botanical Syrup and Vegetable Pills, the Greatest Family Medicine in the World.

Other Title

• Dr. George Stuart's botanical syrup and vegetable pills, the greatest family medicine in the world

Summary

• This 1849 advertisement for "Dr. George Stuart's botanical syrup and vegetable pills, the greatest family medicine in the world" features an exterior view of the three-and-one-half story storefront of the Stuart establishment on the 700 block of Race Street in Philadelphia. Signage on the building north of the large central showcase window lists several diseases and ailments cured by "Dr. G. Stuart's Syrup and Vegetable Pills." The infirmities listed include consumption, dysentery, chills and fevers, piles, colds, coughs, bronchitis, cancers, erysipelas, neuralgia, and "general and nervous debility &c. &c." Shadowy views of branches, leaves, and decanters are visible in the showcase window. In front of the store, men of different ages, classes, and ethnicities hold banners inscribed with testimonials; several also hold bottles. The characters depicted include a dandy, a father and son, a Quaker, and an American Indian. The testimonials attest to the personal experience of these men that the syrup and pills of Dr. Stuart are remedies for cancer, dyspepsia, scrofula, and colds. Also seen are laborers loading a crate of botanical syrup onto a horse-drawn wagon. The picture of the Stuart establishment is bordered by paragraphs of advertising text, including a notice of prices ranging from 25 cents to one dollar per box or bottle. The text promotes various medicines, including "vegetable pills," which are "intended to operate . . . on . . . the whole system"; "rheumatic liniment," to be used for many ailments, including cases of small pox; and "vermifuge for worms," which has been "made with particular reference to children." This advertisement includes two large-scale details of bottles and containers inscribed with the words: "Dr. Stuart's Rheumatic Liniment," "Cancer Salve," "Botanical Syrup," and "Dr. Stuart's Vegetable Pills."

Created / Published

• Philadelphia : P.S. Duval Lithography, 1849-04.

Headings

• -  United States of America--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
• -  1849-04
• -  Advertising
• -  Cities and towns
• -  Horse-drawn vehicles
• -  Horses
• -  Indians of North America
• -  Laborers
• -  Lithographs
• -  Merchants
• -  Nonprescription drug industry
• -  Patent medicines
• -  Pharmaceutical industry
• -  Society of Friends
• -  Storefronts
• -  Stores and shops
• -  Street scenes
• -  Wagons

Notes

• -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
• -  "Digital catalog number: POS 187"--Note extracted from World Digital Library.
• -  Original resource extent: 1 print : lithograph ; 86 x 57 centimeters.
• -  Original resource at: The Library Company of Philadelphia.
• -  Content in English.
• -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

• 1 online resource.

Source Collection

• Philadelphia on Stone

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.wdl/wdl.9378

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2021670303

Online Format

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• image

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2021670303

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