Bowen's Corn Eradicator [descriptive]

Item Overview

Title

Bowen's Corn Eradicator [descriptive]

Date Created

[between 1870 and 1906?]

Date

1870/1906

Place of Origin

Brockton (Mass.)

Publisher

Bowen & Packard

Language

English

Collection

Patent Medicine Trade Cards
History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection

Notes

Description

Front of card depicts a bad-dressed man standing in some sort of clinic or barber-shop. He is holding two coats in his hands. One coat is clean and fancy; another one is ragged and dirty. The citation at the bottom of the card says: “I wonder which is mine!”
Original trade card forms part of: Collection no. 311, History & Special Collections for the Sciences, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA.

Caption

Additional card text: Compliments of Bowen & Packard.
Additional text from back of card: “Sure Pop,” For Corns. If there is anything positively destructive to human happiness, it is corns. Men and Women suffer untold misery, and break the commandments by quoting scripture backwards from year to year because of corns. Now all this misery and breaking of the commandments can be squelched by using Bowen’s Corn Eradicator… Just use it according to directions, and you can knock any corn higher than a kite…

Physical Description

Extent

1 print (trade card)

Dimensions

8.6 x 13 cm.

Keywords

Genre

trade cards

Location

United States

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Phytotherapy--Advertisements
Callosities--drug therapy--Advertisements
Clothing
Pharmaceutical Solutions--Advertisements
Drugs, Non-Prescription--Advertisements
Men
Patent medicines