Castoria [inscribed]

Item Overview

Title

Castoria [inscribed]

Alternative title

Centaur Liniment

Date Created

[between 1870 and 1906?]

Place of Origin

United States

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.
Front of card depicts an adult male elephant feeding an infant elephant from a bottle of Castoria. There are palm trees, mountains and indeterminate structures in the background.

Caption

Front of card: Jumbo feeds baby Castoria. From peasant nurse to high born lady, all mothers know what's good for baby, Castoria. While Jumbo, too, though not a lady, follows suit and feeds the great baby, Castoria.
Back of card: Centaur Liniment is unquestionably the most nearly instantaneous cure of pains, burns, swellings, galls and lameness upon man and beast the world has ever known. "My equestrians and teamsters all say that Centaur Liniment is the best remedy for stiff joints, wounds and lameness they have ever used." P.T. Barnum 438 Fifth Avenue, N.Y.

Physical Description

Extent

1 print (trade card)

Dimensions

7.7 x 10.1 cm.

Keywords

Genre

trade cards

Pain--Treatment
Pain--prevention & control--Advertisements.
Analgesics--Advertisements
Liniments--Advertisements
Infant formulas
Patent medicines
Liniments--therapeutic use--Advertisements
Analgesics--therapeutic use--Advertisements
Pain--drug therapy--Advertisements.
Drugs, Non-Prescription--Advertisements
Infants

Location

United States

Resource type

still image