Mitchell's Improved Perforated Belladonna Plaster [inscribed]

Item Overview

Title

Mitchell's Improved Perforated Belladonna Plaster [inscribed]

Date Created

[between 1870 and 1906?]

Date

1870/1906

Place of Origin

Lowell (Mass.)

Publisher

Novelty Plaster Works

Language

English

Collection

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

Notes

Description

On the front of the card there's a girl giving a dog (who's lifting its paw) on a chair a treat. She's standing with a hand behind her back holding a handkerchief and there's a ball on the floor in front of her.
Original trade card forms part of: Collection no. 311. History & Special Collections for the Sciences, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA.

Caption

On back of card:Mitchell's Improved Perforated Belladonna Plaster, the greatest pain alleviator known. Will quiet the pain instantly in such cases as Lame Back, Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Inflammation of the Kidneys, Lung and Throat Affections, Croup, and sudden pains of every kind; and for Female Weakness it beats all the pills in the world...Many in the first stages of Consumption who begin to feel their case hopeless, can be cured by their continued and persistent use. As Morse caught the lightning and caused it to talk, so did Mitchell conceive the idea of combining Belladonna with rubber causing it to cure...

Physical Description

Extent

1 print (trade card, color)

Dimensions

11 x 8.4 cm.

Keywords

Genre

trade cards

Names

J.H. Bufford & Co.

Location

United States

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Atropa belladonna--Advertisements
Girls
Balls (Sporting goods)
Plant Preparations--Advertisements
Pain--drug therapy--Advertisements.
Drugs, Non-Prescription--Advertisements
Plaster (Pharmacy)
Chairs
Dogs
Analgesics--Advertisements