3-074-927 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Advertisement for Revalenta Arabica Food, 1883. 'NO MORE MEDICINE FOR OLD OR YOUNG. Any Invalid can cure himself, without medicine, inconvenience, or expense, by living on DU BARRY'S DELICIOUS REVALENTA ARABICA FOOD, which restores the mucous membrane of stomach and bowels, and cures constipation, indigestion (dyspepsia), consumption, dysentery, diarrhoea, haemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, nervousness, biliousness, all fevers, sore throats, catarrhs, colds, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout, poverty and impurities of the blood, dropsy, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleeplessness, low spirits, spleen, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility, diabetes, kidney diseases, epilepsy, palsy, paralysis, cramps, spasms, nausea, and vomiting, after eating, even in pregnancy or at sea; sinking fits, coughs, asthma, bronchitis, exhaustion, wasting away, and feverish breath. IT CONTAINS FOUR TIMES AS MUCH NOURISHMENT AS MEAT, RENEWS THE BLOOD...100,000 CURES, WHICH HAD RESISTED ALL OTHER TREATMENTS, including those of H.H. the late Pope Pius IX., the late Emperor Nicholas of Russia, Dr. Livingstone; and Mr. H. W. Stanley, the African Explorer, who saved 220 of his men from inanition...' From "Illustrated London News", 1883.