Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup [inscribed]

Item Overview

Title

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup [inscribed]

Date Created

1889

Date

1889

Language

English
German
French

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 the card depicts a woman in Victorian attire with expensive jewelry hanging from her waste. She is holding a smiley baby rapped in a white cloth and looking at the baby with compassion and love. Behind the woman there is a decorative wall and part of a picture frame can be seen.

Caption

...Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup should always be used for Children Teething. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays all pain, cures wind Colic, and is the best remedy for Diarrhoea...

Physical Description

Extent

1 print (trade card)

Dimensions

12.6 x 8.4 cm.

Keywords

Genre

trade cards

Location

United States

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Dental Care for Children--Advertisements
Children teething
Pain--Treatment
Women
Pain--drug therapy--Advertisements.
Drugs, Non-Prescription--Advertisements
Pain
Infants
Patent medicines
Drug Therapy--Advertisements