Perry Davis' Pain Killer

Item Overview

Title

Perry Davis' Pain Killer

Date Created

{Between 1870 and 1906?]

Place of Origin

United States

Publisher

Perry Davis & Son

Language

English

Collection

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

Notes

Description

Original trade card forms part of: Collection no. 311, History & Special Collections for the Sciences, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA.
One man is sitting on a chair and he is sick. The other man is standing and comforting him, he has a bottle of Perry Davis medicine in his hand.

Caption

...Summer complaints. At this season, various diseases of the bowels are prevalent, and many lives are lost through lack of knowledge of a safe and sure remedy. Perry Davis' Pain Killer is a sure cure for Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Cholera, Cholera-Morbus, Summer Complaint, etc., and is perfectly safe...never fails to afford instant relief for cramps and pain in the stomach...I have tried your Pain Killer in severe cases of cramp, colic, and cholera-morbus, and it gives me almost instant relief...

Physical Description

Extent

1 print (trade card)

Dimensions

10.4 x 6.5 cm.

Keywords

Genre

trade cards

Pain--Treatment
Pain--prevention & control--Advertisements.
Drugs, Non-Prescription--Advertisements
Men
Patent medicines

Location

United States

Resource type

still image