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Booklet-advertisement including directions for use, descriptions of the remedy's effectiveness, and a color illustration of a doctor leaving the 19th century premises of a family no longer in need of his services. The family is shown using the product and an African servant is opening the door for the departing doctor. Original trade card forms part of: Collection no. 311, History & Special Collections for the Sciences, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA. Testimonials from the press Good-By Doctor! Family medicine Pain killer Davis's Pain Killer is a purely vegetable compound, prepared from the best and purest materials, and with a care that insures the most perfect uniformity in the medicine; and, while it is a most efficient remedy for pain, it is a perfectly safe medicine, even in the most unskillful hands, and has been tested in every variety of climate, and by almost every nation known to Americans...At this period, there are but few unacquainted with the merits of the Pain Killer; but, while some extol it as a liniment, they know but little of its power in easing pain when taken internally; while others use it internally with great success, but are equally ignorant of its healing virtues when applied externally...Physicians of the first respectability recommend it as a most effectual preparation for the extinction of pain. It is not only the best remedy ever known for Bruises, Cuts, Burns, &c., but for Dysentery, or Cholera, or any sort of bowel complaint, it is a remedy unsurpassed for efficiency, and rapidity of action. In the great cities of India, and other hot climates, it has become the standard medicine for all such complaints, as well as for Dyspepsia, Liver Complaints, and other kindred disorders. For Coughs and Colds, Canker, Asthma, and Rheumatic difficulties, it has been proved by the most abundant and convincing testimony to be an invaluable medicine...It has effected cures in diarrhea; and for cuts and bruises it is invaluable...Known almost universally to be a good remedy for burns, and other pains of the body; and is valuable not only for colds in winter, but for various summer complaints...The stain occasioned by external application of the Pain Killer is easily removed by washing in alcohol...For a Cold. Take a teaspoonful of Pain Killer in half a cupful of hot water, well sweetened with molasses or sugar, just before going to bed, bathing the chest freely in the Pain Killer at the same time...For a Cough...For Bronchitis. Take two teaspoonfuls of the Cough Mixture three times a day, using as a gargle for the throat, every night and morning, a strong mixture of Pain Killer in water, or milk and water, sweetened with loaf-sugar...For Asthma and Croup...For Kidney Complaints...If troubled with retention of urine, take one or two pills of Venice turpentine, in addition to the above, till relieved. For Sick-Headache and Sea-Sickness...For Cramp and Pain in the Stomach...Painter's Colic...For Dyspepsia...Acid Stomach, Heartburn, Indigestion, Liver Complaint, Rheumatism, may be treated the same as Dyspepsia. For Canker in the Mouth, Throat, or Stomach...For Piles...For Catarrh...For Diarrhoea...For Dysentery. Take teaspoonful of the Pain Killer, well mixed in a gill of hot milk and molasses, or with a tablespoonful of castor oil...For Cholera...For Sprains and Bruises...For Toothache...For Scalds, Burns, Frost Bites, and Old Sores. Keep the wounded parts wet with the Pain Killer till the pain ceases: and then, to heal the wound, use a salve made of equal parts, rosin, beeswax, and sweet oil, mixed by simmering over a slow fire. For Chilblains, Erysipelas, Ringworms, Whitlows, and Boils...For Headache and Neuralgia in the Face or Head, as well as for Sciatica, Rheumatism, Gout, or Pains in the Side, Back and Loins...The Pain Killer may sometimes be taken with good effect in smaller doses than here prescribed; and, as it contains no poisonous ingredient, if an overdose should at any time be taken, no unfavorable or injurious results can follow...In India, Africa, and China, where this dreadful disease is more or less prevalent, the Pain Killer is considered by the natives, as well as European residents in those climates, a sure remedy... For internal & external use
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