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Slide #6: The female complaints in this advertisement for English Female Bitters are difficult to specify, but the symptoms, according to the text on the reverse of the card, state the "she is becoming pale, feeble, lifeless, cross, fretful and unfit for anything." Further she can't sleep soundly, can't laugh heartily, has become melancholy and dull and lost her brilliant wit. At the time, there was no counterpart product for males.



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