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Title: Mitchell's Belladonna Plasters [inscribed]
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1870 and 1906?]
1870/1906
Publication Information: Lowell (Mass.)
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Medicine and Science
Collection: History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Original trade card forms part of: Collection no. 311. History & Special Collections for the Sciences, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA.
A boy wearing a hat with a feather pinned to it.
On back of card: Mitchell's Belladonna Plasters cure all aches and pains. Improved perforated Belladona Plaster, the greatest pain alleviator known. Will quiet the pain instantly in such cases as Lame Back, Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Inflammation of the kidneys, Lung and Throat Affections, Croup and sudden pains of every kind; and for Female Weakness it beats all the pills in the world...Many in the first stages of Consumption who begin to feel their case hopeless, can be cured by their continued and persistent use. As Morse caught the lightning and caused it to talk, so did Mitchell conceive the idea of combining Belladonna with rubber and causing it to cure...
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Identifier: https://search.library.ucla.edu/permalink/01UCS_LAL/17p22dp/alma9960994033606533
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Language: English
Subject: Feathers
Lungs--Diseases
Hats
Atropa belladonna--Advertisements
Kidney Diseases--drug therapy--Advertisements
Plant Preparations--Advertisements
Pain--drug therapy--Advertisements
Antirheumatic Agents--Advertisements
Drugs, Non-Prescription--Advertisements
Anti-Inflammatory Agents--Advertisements
Faces
Plaster (Pharmacy)
Patent medicines
Analgesics--therapeutic use--Advertisements
Backache--Treatment
Boys
Throat--Diseases--Treatment
Novelty Plaster Works
Gies & Co
Source: Patent Medicine Trade Cards
History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection

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