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Description: A man wearing an overcoat is bending over, holding his back, while his little son below speaks to him. The quote “Oh! My poor back” appears above him. The little boy is pointing up at his grandfather telling him to try “Carter’s Backache Plasters.” The title “Carter’s Backache Plasters” is written below the scene. ...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... Oh my poor back"."Dran'pa o'o' ought to put on one of Carter's Backache plasters".Varter's Backache Platers.
Bandages--Advertisements Children Pain--Treatment Bandages and bandaging Back Pain--therapy--Advertisements Backache--Treatment Patent medicines Grandparents
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Patent Medicine Trade Cards History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection
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