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Title
Carter's Backache Plasters [inscribed]
Alternative Title
For Every Ache or Pain
Puzzle Card
Publication Information
Auburn (Me.)
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
Description: There is a scene of a house, lake and trees, with sixteen hidden animals disguised into the drawing. “Puzzle Card” is written below the scene, and lists all animals hidden within the drawing. In the upper left hand corner is an outlined box with the title “Carter’s Backache Plasters For Every Ache or Pain.”
...Backache quickly cured by Carter's Smart Weed and Belladonna Backache Plasters. These plasters contain Smart Weed and Belladonna, both wonderful pain relievers, in addition to the usual gums, balsams, &c., used in other porous plasters, and are consequently superior to all others for weak or lame back, Backache, Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Soreness of the chest or lungs, Asthma, Pleurisy, Kidney troubles, Crick in the back, stiffness of the joints, and for all pains and aches and wherever a plaster can be used...
Carter's Backache Plasters for every ache or pain.Puzzle card: Fine-Elephant, monkey, giraff, bear, dog, wild boar, 2 camels, wolf, 2rats, face, lion and lioness, tapir.
Type

Identifier
https://search.library.ucla.edu/permalink/01UCS_LAL/17p22dp/alma9960994033606533
ark:/21198/zz0002hp6n
Language
English
Subject
Bandages--Advertisements
Animals
Bandages and bandaging
Trees
Lakes & ponds
Back Pain--therapy--Advertisements
Backache--Treatment
Patent medicines
Pain--Treatment
Buildings
Source
Patent Medicine Trade Cards
History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection

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