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Title: Castoria [inscribed]
Alternative Title: Centaur Liniment
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1870 and 1906?]
1870/1906
Publication Information: United States
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.
Front of card depicts an adult male elephant feeding an infant elephant from a bottle of Castoria. There are palm trees, mountains and indeterminate structures in the background.
Front of card: Jumbo feeds baby Castoria. From peasant nurse to high born lady, all mothers know what's good for baby, Castoria. While Jumbo, too, though not a lady, follows suit and feeds the great baby, Castoria.
Back of card: Centaur Liniment is unquestionably the most nearly instantaneous cure of pains, burns, swellings, galls and lameness upon man and beast the world has ever known. "My equestrians and teamsters all say that Centaur Liniment is the best remedy for stiff joints, wounds and lameness they have ever used." P.T. Barnum 438 Fifth Avenue, N.Y.
Identifier: https://search.library.ucla.edu/permalink/01UCS_LAL/17p22dp/alma9960994033606533
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Language: English
Subject: Pain--Treatment
Pain--prevention & control--Advertisements
Analgesics--Advertisements
Liniments--Advertisements
Infant formulas
Patent medicines
Liniments--therapeutic use--Advertisements
Analgesics--therapeutic use--Advertisements
Pain--drug therapy--Advertisements
Drugs, Non-Prescription--Advertisements
Infants
Source: Patent Medicine Trade Cards
History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection

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