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Title: Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil [inscribed]
Alternative Title: Household remedy [inscribed]
Date Created and/or Issued: 1850/1899
[between 1850-1899?]
Publication Information: Buffalo (N.Y.)
Foster, Milburn & Co
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: The front of card depicts the face of young women with scarf wrapped around her head, in a colorful fancy dress with a bust-line that reads "Dr Thomas' Electric Oil".
Original trade card forms part of: Collection no. 311, History & Special Collections for the Sciences, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA.
...The most beneficial household remedy, remarkable in its action, quick in performing the work desired, used internally and externally with equal satisfaction, giving immediate relief, nothing in the least injurious to the weakest system...Jabesh Snow, Gunning Cove, N.S., writes that he was completely prostrated with Asthma, and was cured...Mrs. O.M. Hodge, Battle Creek, Mich., states she upset a kettle of boiling water and was badly scalded...he was cured of a bad cold in one day...he was cured of Rheumatism of two years' standing...the best remedy known for Catarrh, Bronchitis, and all other throat complaints...cured her baby of a severe attack of Croup with two doses...cured of a severe case of Piles, of long standing...
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Identifier: https://search.library.ucla.edu/permalink/01UCS_LAL/17p22dp/alma9960994033606533
ark:/21198/zz0002hdkg
Language: English
Subject: Medicine, Popular
Respiratory organs--Diseases--Treatment
Burns, Chemical--drug therapy--Advertisements
Oils--therapeutic use--Advertisements
Women
Cold (Disease)--Treatment
Antirheumatic Agents--Advertisements
Drugs, Non-Prescription--Advertisements
Bronchitis--drug therapy--Advertisements
Patent medicines
Croup--drug therapy--Advertisements
Source: Patent Medicine Trade Cards
History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection

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