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Patent Medicine for Women
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Label from a patent medicine allegedly for "the prevention of what is commonly known to mothers as the morning sickness" and "generally for strengthening and restoring the system prior to the birth of children." About 1850-1900.


Image courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Modifications © Jone Lewis 2004.

Keywords: Patent medicine, women, morning sickness.

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