St. Jacobs Oil for Sprains [inscribed]

Item Overview

Title

St. Jacobs Oil for Sprains [inscribed]

Date Created

[between 1870 and 1906?]

Date

1870/1906

Place of Origin

Baltimore (Md.)

Publisher

Charles A. Vogeler Company

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
On front of the card: trees in backround and three hunter two men and one woman, dogs are running in front. At the top right corner of the card "St. Jacobs Oil. for Sprains"

Caption

On back of the card: St. Jacob's Oil, for Sprains...For all accidents in the hunting field and elsewhere, no remedy equals St. Jacob's Oil for removing pain and stiffness. Boating men and cyclists, as well as athletes, everywhere use and recommend St. Jacobs Oil for rubbing into the muscles after hard training. It removes all stiffness and soreness directly...

Physical Description

Extent

1 print (trade card)

Keywords

Genre

trade cards

Location

United States

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Pain--Treatment
Hunting
Pain--drug therapy--Advertisements.
Drugs, Non-Prescription--Advertisements
Patent medicines