Dalley's Magical Pain Extractor

Item Overview

Title

Dalley's Magical Pain Extractor

Date Created

[ca.1885?]

Date

1885

Place of Origin

New York (N.Y.)

Language

English

Collection

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

Notes

Description

Front shows a small boy reading from an open book while perched on a limb of a tree. Two white birds are "sitting" on their tails with their feet raised as if paying homage to what the boy is reading. A quill is in an ink jar dangling on a twig below the boy.
Original trade card forms part of: collection no. 311, Hisotry & Special Collections for the Social Sciences, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA.

Caption

...Because it cures Burns and Scalds, and leaves no scar. Because it will cure a felon quicker than anything else known. Because it gives relief at once, and always cures the Piles. Because by it the agony of Corns and Bunions is relieved immediately. Because it will make Chapped Hands smooth in a night. Becuase it draws from Ulcers and old Sores their poison, healing without scar. Because Erysipelas and Skin Diseases have found in it a master. Because Inflammation in every form gives way to it as if by magic...

Physical Description

Extent

1 print (trade card)

Dimensions

11.2 x 7.3 cm.

Keywords

Genre

trade cards

Location

United States

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Pain--Treatment
Pain--drug therapy--Advertisements.