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Vintage Rumford Chemical Works Ad (ca. 1892): A vintage Rumford Chemical Works Horsford's Acid Phosphate Ad from The Druggists Circular and Chemical Gazette



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Exhaustion

...Horsford's Acid Phosphate

A wonderful remedy, of the highest value in mental and nervous exhaustion. Overworked men and women, the nervous, weak, and debilitated, will find in the Acid Phosphate a most agreeable, grateful and harmless stimulant, giving renewed strength and vigor to the entire system.

Rumford Chemical Works, Providence, R.I. ...


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Promotional trading cards of all types were popular during the Victorian era (soap, tonics, sewing machines, shirts, hats, etc.), and patent medicines were no exception. People would collect and trade these trading cards. Manufactures of patent medicines would design and print these cards, then provide them as promotional giveaways to the drug stores that carried their patent medicines. Many cards have survived and the artwork in many cases is magnificent. 



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