The Cardui Song Book
by CHATTANOOGA MEDICINE CO
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Schilde, Belgium
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About This Item
Chattanooga Co.,: Chattanooga,, 1908.. 32 pp. 8vo (13 x 19,5 cm.). Original printed wrappers (spine damaged). With numerous portraits. ¶ 27 Songs and testimonies. "Wine of Cardui" for Women and "Black-Draught"for all, became virtual folk remedies, and have remained so for almost a century. Wine of Cardui is an alcoholic nostrum sold as the "Woman's Tonic". It contained no wine but 20% alcohol per volume, a small amount of the extractives of Cardus benedictus and Viburnum prunifolium (both of non medical value).
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- Bookseller
- Sylco bvba livres anciens - antiquarian books (BE)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1989
- Title
- The Cardui Song Book
- Author
- CHATTANOOGA MEDICINE CO
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Chattanooga,
- Place of Publication
- Chattanooga Co.,
- Date Published
- 1908.
- Keywords
- quackery quacks charlatanry medical advertisement publicity nostrums patent-medicines cures self-medication self-doctoring women
- Bookseller catalogs
- quackery - quacks;
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Sylco bvba livres anciens - antiquarian books
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About the Seller
Sylco bvba livres anciens - antiquarian books
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Schilde
About Sylco bvba livres anciens - antiquarian books
Fine and rare books in the fields of science, medicine, technology and the applied arts. Old fashioned printed catalogues and lists available on request.A note on binding conservation. All our ancient leather bindings are carefully cleaned with Brecknell's leather soap, and when needed, treated with hydroxypropylcellulose (in the case of dry leather). Finally we protect the leather with \"Cire 213\", the ultimate binding conservation wax developed by the BNF (Bibliothque nationale de France).
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- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...