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Title
"Oil of Gladness" cures all pains and aches [inscribed]
Date Created and/or Issued
1870/1906
[Between 1870 and 1906?]
Publication Information
Albany (N.Y.)
Ham, L
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
Original trade card forms part of: Collection no. 311, History & Special Collections for the Sciences, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA.
A baby sleeps in a basket hung from a tree branch, and a dog rocks the baby by pulling on a string attached to the basket.
Text on back of card: Ham's "Oil of Gladness" is a nice clean and pleasant remedy for the many aches and pains that are constantly occuring in every household. It is pleasant to the senses being aromatic, and limpid as pure water. It is more efficacious than the many nasty sticky preparations with which people torment themselves and children, in the foolish idea that the worse a dose tastes the more good it will do. Diseases of children yield to "Ham's Oil of Gladness" at once, while disorders of mature years are easily disipated under its benign influence. It is used internally and externally, full directions in English and German accompany each bottle ...
Type

Identifier
https://search.library.ucla.edu/permalink/01UCS_LAL/17p22dp/alma9960994033606533
ark:/21198/zz0002hnht
Language
English
Subject
Dogs
Baskets
Pharmaceutical Solutions--Advertisements
Pain--drug therapy--Advertisements
Analgesics
Infants
Sleeping
Pain--Treatment
Tonics (Medicinal preparations)
Analgesics--therapeutic use--Advertisements
Source
Patent Medicine Trade Cards
History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection

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