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Title: Carter's Backache Plasters [inscribed]
Alternative Title: For Every Ache or Pain
Publication Information: Auburn (Me.)
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: Description: A young girl wearing a hat and dress is walking through a garden with bare feet while holding up some flowers with a piece of cloth. Above this scene is the title “Carter’s Backache Plasters” and “for every ache or pain” On the lower right hand corner are the instructions to turn the card over.
Carter's Backache Plasters.For every ache or pain.Made from smart weed & belladona.
...Backache quickly cured by Carter's Smart Weed and Belladonna 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...10.9 x 7.2 cm.
Identifier: https://search.library.ucla.edu/permalink/01UCS_LAL/17p22dp/alma9960994033606533
ark:/21198/zz0002hhnz
Language: English
Subject: Bandages--Advertisements
Pain--Treatment
Girls
Back Pain--therapy--Advertisements
Weeds
Backache--Treatment
Patent medicines
Bandages and bandaging
Source: Patent Medicine Trade Cards
History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection

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