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Title: Vaseline [inscribed]
Alternative Title: Elixir Vitae
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1870 and 1906?]
1870/1906
Publication Information: New York (N.Y.)
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.
Card-advertisement depicts young child with puppies and a cat. Reverse side contains poem extolling virtues of the Vaseline product.
...The elixir vitae...When faint and sleepless with Rheumatic pains, or torn with fell Neuralgia's arrows keen, how like a balm from paradise it flows, soft, soothing, mild all-healing Vaseline. Great magic healer of a thousand pains, for Croup or Asthma, simple, pure and clean, for Colds, Eruptions, Wounds, or Cuts or Burns, there's nought on earth can equal Vaseline. Pure Vaseline for medicinal use...Pomade Vaseline for the hair...Vaseline Cold Cream for the skin and complexion, chapped and rough skin, lip &c.... Vaseline Camphor Ice...Vaseline Toilet Soap, superior to all others...Vaseline Confections for internal use.
Identifier: https://search.library.ucla.edu/permalink/01UCS_LAL/17p22dp/alma9960994033606533
ark:/21198/zz0002hkhv
Language: English
Subject: Dogs
Children
Petrolatum--therapeutic use--Advertisements
Drugs, Non-Prescription--Advertisements
Cats
Source: Patent Medicine Trade Cards
History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection

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