Brandreth's Pills Promotes Blood Purity and Health
An 1842 advertisement extols Brandreth's Vegetable Universal Pills as a cure for impurity of the blood. It claims pills attract impurities to the bowels for elimination, preventing fevers, dysentery, cholera, rashes, scurvy, and many illnesses. It cites grief, anxiety, diet, and environment as contributors, and asserts rapid healing when blood is purified. Agents are listed with George Howard as local sponsor in Taihore Marei, 1842.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brandreth
Dr. Brandreth
B. Brandreth
R. Hazlewood
Trav Ag
Geo. Howard
Taihore
Marei
Tarboro’, Ney
Sherman’s Cough Lozenges and Worm Medicines Sold Widely
Sherman's cough lozenges claim rapid relief for coughs colds and consumption with thousands of boxes sold last year and praised by certificates. Worm lozenges advertised as 400 000 cures prompt worm elimination with symptom list. Poor Man's Plaster touted as strongest relief for back and joint pain and rheumatism available for a quarter price. Sold by Geo Howard Tarboro Feb 23.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherman
Wight
Geo. Howard
Tarboro
To Mothers and Nurses Teeth Through Gums Warned
Advice on teething complications urging use of Evans soothing syrup to ease gum pain prevent convulsions fevers and death. Endorsed by a parent letter praising the syrup and instructing proper administration with cautions on purchase locations in New York Tarboro Elizabeth City dated January 14.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
de William Evans
Evans
APPROVED Patent Medicines Listed with Uses and Dealers
A colonial advertisement lists Beckwith's anti dyspeptic Pills Gray's Patent Ointment Lee's bilious Pills Fuller's Ethereal Tooth Ache Elixir and The Afflicted Man's Friend Ointment with claims for dyspepsia bilious fevers scrofula wounds burns fevers toothache and other ailments. Printed directions accompany the medicines with sale by George Howard Tarborough November 15.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gray
Lee
GRO
Howard Tarhoro
Life Pills advertised as cures for rheumatism and other ailments
An 1842 notice touts Vegetable Life Pills as curing rheumatism gout dropsy scurvy ulcers asthma and consumption by purifying blood and relieving bodily humors. It claims rapid results for colds and influenza and presents testimonials and a patient origin story from New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Geo. Howard
Also Mentioned on This Page
Bullard
Urs
J. C. Howard
Byas
Florence
Tarleton
Wm. Evans
Chatham St
M. Russet
Elizabeth City
State of North Carolina
Edgecombe County
Superior Court of Equity
James A. Staton
Jane Norfleet
C. Mle
James Staton
Warboro’ Press
Keneem II Lewis
Court of Equity
Kenelm H Leiwis
C.M.E Price
DR. Phelps
Beckwith
Fuller
Dr. Blake
London
London Medics Society
Jon
Thompson
Robinson
C. Geo. Howard
NHE
Geo Howard Tarboro
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