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No Binding. Condition: Collectible-Very Good. Original trade card featuring a comedic illustration rendered in blue and white that shows a man bathing in a pond, unseen, while two women are nearby. The illustration is titled, "Moses in the bulrushes." No date, circa 1880s. 4 1/4" x 2 1/2." Trade card is very clean and intact overall except for age toning, a few tiny wrinkles, and a few spots of discoloration on front and back. A Very Good copy. Trade card advertising Chillarine, Mexican Female Remedy and Dr. M. A. Simmon's Liver Medicine as sold by Hunt & Doss in Colorado City, Texas. Hunt & Doss was a store that carried drugs, medicines, and toiletries. Text on back promotes both medicines. Chillarine claims to cure chills, hence the name, and ailments unique to women's health (menstrual symptoms, etc.). Simmon's Liver Medicine is marketed as a cure-all to all sorts of diseases and health problems such as "Indigestion, Colic, Dyspepsia, Biliousness, Costiveness, . Foul Breath . Cholera, Yellow Fever, and all Malarial Diseases." Like other patent medicines of their time, both the Liver Medicine's and Chillarine's curative properties were dubious at best. The popularity of patent medicines waned following changes in public opinion and the work of watchdog groups which led to the passage of consumer protection acts. The first of these acts, the Pure Food and Drug Act, was passed in 1906 and ushered in a new period of company accountability and higher product safety standards. Trade cards are antique business cards that first became popular during the late seventeenth century in Paris and Lyon, France and London, England. Trade cards were often given by business owners and proprietors to patrons and customers as a way to promote their businesses. Prior to the use of street addresses, trade cards had maps so clients could locate the associated business. Many of these cards also incorporated elaborate designs, illustrations, and other decorative features. Trade cards became popular in the United States during the nineteenth century in the period after the Civil War. The late nineteenth century also saw the advent of trade card collecting as a hobby. While they are no longer in use, trade cards influenced the formation of trading cards and were the predecessors of modern-day business cards.
