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Vintage Parker, Stearns & Sutton Ad (ca. 1892): A vintage Parker, Stearns & Sutton Alpha Syringe Ad from The Druggists Circular and Chemical Gazette



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No injection of air with the Alpha syringe

...The reasons why the Alpha continuous flow syringes are the best.

First: They are the only bulb syringes producing a continuous flow with one bulb, and no more parts than are used on the old style syringe.

Parker, Stearns & Sutton, 228 & 229 South St., New York City. ...


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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. 



As a complimentary service, RXinsider provides FREE, high-resolution downloads of many vintage pharmacy ads and imagery. Simply complete the form on the following webpage, and you will be presented with a download button to download the files for printing and framing in a .zip file.

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