Kickapoo Indian Remedies [inscribed]

Item Overview

Title

Kickapoo Indian Remedies [inscribed]

Alternative title

Kickapoo Indian Oil
Snow shoe dance

Date Created

[between 1870 and 1906?]

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.
Illustration on one side of the card shows a group of 10 Native Americans wearing show shoes while performing a circle dance. They are dressed in long fringed leggings and wear loinclothes or other coverings and feathered headdresses. The illustration is labeled "The Snow Shoe Dance," and is inscribed "Kickapoo Indian Remedies."

Caption

Kickapoo Indian Oil, a safe, sure and speedy relief from all Inflammatory Diseases. Quick cure for all kinds of pain. Good for man or beast. It has no equal. Its action upon the Nerves is really atonishing. It stops Pain as if by Magic. It should be in every Family, for it is truly a Doctor in your House for Toothache, Headache, Earache, Sore Throat, Chilblains, Burns, Freezes, Cuts, Sprains, Bruises, Neuralgia, Rheumatic Pains, Colic, Cholera Morbus, Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Cramps in the Stomach or Limbs, and all Sudden or Acute Pains, EXTERNAL or INTERNAL. It gives immediate relief! Try it! Price, 25c. per Bottle; 5 Bottles for $1.00. Ask your druggist for it.

Physical Description

Extent

1 print (trade card, color)

Dimensions

7 x 10.1 cm.

Keywords

Genre

trade cards

Pain--Treatment
Inflammation--drug therapy--Advertisements
Pain--drug therapy--Advertisements.
Indigenous peoples--United States
Drugs, Non-Prescription--Advertisements
Ceremonial dancers--United States
Headdresses
Patent medicines
Analgesics--therapeutic use--Advertisements
Snowshoes & snowshoeing

Location

United States

Resource type

still image