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Title
Brown's Household Panacea, the great pain reliever [inscribed]
Date Created and/or Issued
[between 1870 and 1906?]
1870/1906
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
Text on back of card advertises Brown's Vermifuge Comfits or worm lozenges and has instructions on treatment of the drowned.
Original trade card forms part of: Collection no. 311, History & Special Collections for the Sciences, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA.
A hobo carries a burning stove with his bare hands, smiling and feeling no pain.
Additional card text: For internal and external pains, rheumatism, pain in stomach, bowels or side, colic, diarrœha, colds, sprains, burns, scalds, cramps & bruises.
Identifier
https://search.library.ucla.edu/permalink/01UCS_LAL/17p22dp/alma9960994033606533
ark:/21198/zz0002hnb7
Language
English
Subject
Tramps
Pain--Treatment
Stoves
Pain--drug therapy--Advertisements
Drugs, Non-Prescription--Advertisements
Men
Analgesics
Patent medicines
Fire
Analgesics--therapeutic use--Advertisements
Source
Patent Medicine Trade Cards
History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection

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