Perry Davis' Pain Killer (booklet) [descriptive]

Item Overview

Title

Perry Davis' Pain Killer (booklet) [descriptive]

Alternative title

Pain Killer

Date Created

[between 1870 and 1906?]

Date

1870/1906

Place of Origin

Providence (R.I.)

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.
Booklet-advertisement for pain remedy with an illustrated and poetically written theme of medieval chivalry, jousting, and heroic dominion over pain.

Caption

...It is just the thing needed so many times in the home, when traveling, and when hunting or fishing. Keep it handy for use in case of accidents or sudden illness...To mothers: Pain Killer cures Croup, Whooping Cough, Cholera Morbus, and other children's ailments...Pain Killer cures Burns, Bruises, Scalds, Insect Bites, &c...Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Sciatica, Lumbago, &c., are always relieved at once by, and a cure will follow the faithful use of, Pain Killer. Bathe the parts affected with Pain Killer, and wrap with a woolen cloth saturated with same. An ordinary dose internally will do good...In many districts where Fever and Ague prevails, the efficacy of Pain Killer is well known...No other medicine on earth is so efficacious as Pain Killer in cases of Colic, Cramps and all Summer Complaints...If the case is unusually severe, bathe the bowels freely with Pain Killer, after taking internally a teaspoonful in sweetened hot water or milk...It will always give relief in cases of Lumbago, Rheumatism and kindred disorders, and will cure most cases, if used faithfully according to directions...
"What nobler aim can man attain than conquest over human pain," Shakespeare

Physical Description

Extent

brochure

Dimensions

13.1 x 8.9 cm.

Keywords

Genre

brochures

Location

United States

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Shields
Pain--Treatment
Knights
Jousting
Pain--drug therapy--Advertisements.
Drugs, Non-Prescription--Advertisements
Chivalry
Armor