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A Victorian medical trade card for Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, the features an illustration of two little girls and a giant bottle. The product was a supposed cure for 'colds, coughs, & all diseases of the throat and lungs.' (Photo by Buyenlarge/Getty Images)

A Victorian medical trade card for Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, the features an illustration of two little girls and a giant bottle. The product was a supposed cure for 'colds, coughs, & all diseases of the throat and lungs.' (Photo by Buyenlarge/Getty Images)