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The healing power of electricity as applied to the head and hair.
...Cures and prevents baldness, restores prematurely gray hair to its natural color, cures nervous headache and sluggish circulation of blood in the head. Relieves neuralgia, makes harsh and unmanageable hair soft and tractable.
John M. Riley, Inventor and manufacturer, Newark, N.J. ...
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.