Vaseline [inscribed]

Item Overview

Title

Vaseline [inscribed]

Alternative title

Elixir Vitae

Date Created

[between 1870 and 1906?]

Place of Origin

New York (N.Y.)

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.
Card advertising Vaseline for various therapeutic uses with colored image of Egyptian obelisk on the face and on the reverse side a poem extolling the virtues of Vaseline as a cure-all and presenting it as an age-old remedy, which is in accordance with the suggested ancient theme indicated by the image of the obelisk on the face side.

Caption

Egyptian obelisk in Central Park New York
...The elixir vitae...When faint and sleepless with Rheumatic pains, or torn with fell Neuralgia's arrows keen, how like a balm from paradise it flows, soft, soothing, mild all-healing Vaseline. Great magic healer of a thousand pains, for Croup or Asthma, simple, pure and clean, for Colds, Eruptions, Wounds, or Cuts or Burns, there's nought on earth can equal Vaseline. Pure Vaseline for medicinal use...Pomade Vaseline for the hair...Vaseline Cold Cream for the skin and complexion, chapped and rough skin, lip &c.... Vaseline Camphor Ice...Vaseline Toilet Soap, superior to all others...Vaseline Confections for internal use.

Physical Description

Extent

1 print (trade card)

Dimensions

10.8 x 7.3 cm.

Keywords

Genre

trade cards

Obelisks
Petrolatum--therapeutic use--Advertisements
Drugs, Non-Prescription--Advertisements
Parks

Location

United States

Resource type

still image