Mitchell's Belladonna Plasters
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Identifier: 12.1.63.1
Advertisement for Mitchell's Belladonna Plasters depicting a close-up of a long-haired girl wearing a hat with a peacock feather stuck in it. The reverse of the card shows a bust of a man in the upper left corner with a heading "Improved Perforated Belladonna Plasters, The Greatest Pain Alleviator Known." Used for "lame back, rheumatism, neuralgia, inflammation of kidneys, lung and throat affections, croup, ... female weakness". [Mitchell] "was the first person in the known world to originate the idea of combining Belladonna with Rubber." Price is 25 cents. more...
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Advertisement for Mitchell's Belladonna Plasters depicting a close-up of a long-haired girl wearing a hat with a peacock feather stuck in it. The reverse of the card shows a bust of a man in the upper left corner with a heading "Improved Perforated Belladonna Plasters, The Greatest Pain Alleviator Known." Used for "lame back, rheumatism, neuralgia, inflammation of kidneys, lung and throat affections, croup, ... female weakness". [Mitchell] "was the first person in the known world to originate the idea of combining Belladonna with Rubber." Price is 25 cents.
Contributor(s)
Novelty Plaster Works
Date
1870 - 1890
Call Number
12.1.63.1
Additional Resources
Collection(s)
Laupus Health Sciences History Collections
- Patent Medicine Trade Cards
Health and Medicine
Manufacturing and Business

Subject(s)
Atropa belladonna
Phytotherapy
Rheumatism
Neuralgia
Croup
Advertising as Topic
Nonprescription Drugs--History
Plaster (Pharmacy)
Belladonna (Plant)
Children in advertising
Patent medicines
Location (spatial)
United States--Massachusetts--Lowell (Mass.)
Location (physical)
Laupus History - Manuscripts
Type
still image
Medium
trade cards (advertising)
Physical Description
Persistent URL
http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/20725

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