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Title
Carter's Backache Plasters [inscribed]
Publication Information
Auburn (Me.)
Contributing Institution
UCLA, Library Special Collections, Medicine and Science
Collection
History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection
Rights Information
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Description
Description: A man wearing an overcoat to his knee is bending over, holding his back, while his little grandson below speaks to him. The little boy is pointing up at his grandfather telling him to try “Carter’s Backache Plasters” however “plasters” is misspelled in the boy’s quote. The title “Carter’s Backache Plasters” is written below the scene.
Backache quickly cured by Carter's Smart Weed and Belladona Backache Plasters. These plasters contain Smart Weed and Belladonna, both wonderful pain relievers, in addition to the usual gums, balsams, &c., used in other porous plasters, and are consequently superior to all others for Weak or Lame Back, Backache, Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Soreness of the chest or lungs, Asthma, Pleurisy, Kidney Troubles, Crick in the back, Stiffness of the joints, and for all pains and aches, and wherever a Plaster can be used. If you have any need for a Porous Strengthening Plaster, we know this one will please you...
Carter's Backache Plasters.Dran'pa o'o' ought to put on one of Carters Bakache Plasters.
Type

Identifier
https://search.library.ucla.edu/permalink/01UCS_LAL/17p22dp/alma9960994033606533
ark:/21198/zz0002hdz5
Language
English
Subject
Children
Pain--Treatment
Girls
Back Pain--therapy--Advertisements
Backache--Treatment
Patent medicines
Grandparents
Bandages and bandaging
Source
Patent Medicine Trade Cards
History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection

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