c.1899 Patent Medicine Advertising Ephemera -- Advertising Cures for "Diseases of Women", Catarrh, Kidney Diseases, and more - Includes actual bottle of Uticure
- Omaha, Nebraska: Dr. B.J. Kay Medical Co, 1899
Omaha, Nebraska: Dr. B.J. Kay Medical Co, 1899. Good. Toned with water staining, short tears.. A scarce grouping of ephemera advertising patent medicines by the Dr. B.J. Kay Medical Company, including cure-alls for everything from catarrh to common "diseases of women". Patent medicines, often secured by mail order, were common until dubious cure were banned by the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906. Include three (3) printed leaflets, one (1) mail order coupon for a recipe book, one (1) booklet, and one (1) 3.75" tall printed cylindrical wrapper for a pill bottle ("Dr. Kay's Uticure" for "female diseases"). The booklet is described as follows: "Womanhood". Omaha: Dr. B.J. Kay Medical Co., 1899. Single vol. (7" by 5"), pp. 32, with in-text diagrams, in original illus. self wrps with image of classical woman on front. A guide to common "female" ailments such as amenorrhoea, the "Whites" or leukorrhea, and prolapsed uterus. Also includes an interesting section on "the criminality and physical evils of forced abortions" (p.3).