Words of comfort / [Dr. Jayne Company].

  • Dr. Jayne Company.
Date:
[between 1880 and 1889?]
  • Ephemera
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Words of comfort / [Dr. Jayne Company]. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

No. 15 in a series of 22 cards (they were put out one a year for 22 years). This card shows a family sitting around a table. The old man is reading from a bible, an old woman and two younger women are listening. There is a red curtain behind them. The original painting was by Thomas Faed. The card advertises Dr. Jayne's Tonic Vermifuge, Dr. D. Jayne's Expectorant (containing opium) and Dr. Jayne's Sanative Pills which were supposed to cure low spirits, indigestion, headache, constipation, dyspepsia, worms, St. Vitus dance, convulsions, colds, coughs, throat and lung troubles.

Publication/Creation

[New York] : [Dr. Jayne Co.], [between 1880 and 1889?]

Physical description

1 sheet : color illustrations ; 12 cm.

Notes

Overprinted with the details: Presented by E.T. Schreiber, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

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