Carter's Backache Plasters [inscribed]

Item Overview

Title

Carter's Backache Plasters [inscribed]

Alternative title

For Every Ache or Pain

Place of Origin

Auburn (Me.)

Language

English

Collection

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

Notes

Description

Description: A young girl wearing a hat and dress is walking through a garden with bare feet while holding up some flowers with a piece of cloth. Above this scene is the title “Carter’s Backache Plasters” and “for every ache or pain” On the lower right hand corner are the instructions to turn the card over.

Caption

Carter's Backache Plasters.For every ache or pain.Made from smart weed & belladona.
...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...10.9 x 7.2 cm.

Physical Description

Extent

1 print (trade card)

Dimensions

10.9 x 7.2 cm.

Keywords

Genre

trade cards

Bandages--Advertisements
Pain--Treatment
Girls
Back Pain--therapy--Advertisements
Weeds
Backache--Treatment
Patent medicines
Bandages and bandaging

Location

United States

Resource type

still image