Two babies with giant bottle of Ayers Cherry Pectoral Wellcome

cherry cough medicine.jpg

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Title

Two babies with giant bottle of Ayers Cherry Pectoral Wellcome

Subject

Black Cherry

Description

Colour card showing two babies reaching to a massive bottle of the medicine, spoons in hand. Both are wearing white gowns. One has red socks, one has blue shoes. There is a branch of cherries in the foreground and in the air above the bottle. The medicine is supposed to rapidly cure "colds, coughs, sore throat, influenza, laryngitis, quinsy, hoarseness, croup, bronchitis, asthma and catarrh" and provides relief from whooping cough and consumption.

Creator

Wiki user: wellcomeimages.org

Publisher

Wikimedia

Date

2013-10-13

Contributor

Ken Yamazaki

About the Original Item

Date Added
November 3, 2014
Collection
Trees
Citation
Wiki user: wellcomeimages.org, “Two babies with giant bottle of Ayers Cherry Pectoral Wellcome,” Omeka@CTL, accessed November 21, 2024, http://libraryexhibits.uvm.edu/omeka/items/show/2214.
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