Die-Cut Counter Card Advertising Patent Medicine Dr. Tutt's Liver Pills - No need for your Doctor, now that you have Tutt's Liver Pills

United States: Dr. Tutt's Liver Pills, 1880. Good to very good. Colors bright. Light toning, repair to verso (neck of woman), surface tears with some text loss.. An attractive chromolithographed and die-cut counter card advertising a type of patent medicine to families. Counter cards were bright cards displayed on shop counters to advertise products. This example depicts a mother with two small children at her knee as she shows a box of the medicine to her family doctor. The older child points to a piece of paper that reads, "No need for you Doctor, now that we have Tutt's Liver Pills". Like other patent medicines, the product seems to claim to be a cure-all for all kinds of family maladies. The message at the foot reads, "The Doctor's Unnecessary Visit His Patients Being Cured by the Use of Dr. Tutt's Liver Pills". Includes a lengthier description and pitch for the product on the verso, with a litany of afflictions the pills claim to cure, including Malaria, "female irregularities", kidney diseases and dyspepsia. Measures approx. 11.5" by 7", text on verso.