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Title
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children Teething [inscribed]
Date Created and/or Issued
1887
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.
Front of the card depicts a woman who is leaning on one hand, holding a bottle of the syrup and with the other hand, holding a nude, but seemingly happy infant while looking at the child compassionately with a smile. She is wearing a white robe over a red dress in an outdoor garden. Meant to indicate that syrup makes everyone’s life happy.
...Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup should always be used for Children Teething. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays all pain, cures wind Colic, and is the best remedy for Diarrhoea...
Identifier
https://search.library.ucla.edu/permalink/01UCS_LAL/17p22dp/alma9960994033606533
ark:/21198/zz0002hnjb
Language
English
German
French
Subject
Dental Care for Children--Advertisements
Children teething
Women
Infants
Patent medicines
Drug Therapy--Advertisements
Drugs, Non-Prescription--Advertisements
Source
Patent Medicine Trade Cards
History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection

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