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Title
Dalley's Magical Pain Extractor
Date Created and/or Issued
[ca. 1885?]
1885
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
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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.
Scene on front shows a tiny boy thanding on what may be a water lilly. He is dressed like a dandy, in shorts, with a top, and a ruffles around his neck. He is holding a hoop, and happy looking frogs are leaping though it. The boy has a scythe tucked through his belt, and also an hourglass apprars also looped through his belt. Text across the top: Use Dalley's MAgical Pain Extractor the great family ointment.
...Because it cures Burns and Scalds, and leaves no scar. Because it will cure a felon quicker than anything else known. Because it gives relief at once, and always cures the Piles. Because by it the agony of Corns and Bunions is relieved immediately. Because it will make Chapped Hands smooth in a night. Becuase it draws from Ulcers and old Sores their poison, healing without scar. Because Erysipelas and Skin Diseases have found in it a master. Because Inflammation in every form gives way to it as if by magic...
Type

Identifier
https://search.library.ucla.edu/permalink/01UCS_LAL/17p22dp/alma9960994033606533
ark:/21198/zz0002hnx1
Language
English
Subject
Pain--Treatment
Pain--drug therapy--Advertisements
Source
Patent Medicine Trade Cards
History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection

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