Details
Contributor Jayne, David, 1799-1866, copyright holder.
Title Jay[ne's] Carmina[tive] Balsam. Prepared only by Dr. Jayne, wholesale druggist & chemist, no. 84 Chestnut Street below Third, Philada. [graphic]: No. 84 Chestnut Street and without whose signature to this label it cannot be genuine. D. Jayne [facsimile signature].
Publisher Philadelphia: D. Jayne & Son
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1857
Date c1857
Physical Description 1 print: engraving; 14 x 13 cm. (5.5 x 5 in.)
Description Patent medicine label containing an "infirmary" scene with four women, including a nursemaid, and several children. Shows the nursemaid comforting a girl as she is fed a spoon of medicine from a seated woman upon who children crawl and tug. In the left, another seated woman holds a baby. Behind her, a woman reaches for a jar of medicine on an upper shelf in a large cabinet. Jayne began to produce the carmative balsam (probably his first patent medicine) in 1831, which remained on the market until the 1930s.
Notes Printed below image: Keep the Tops of the Bottles Up.
Several lines of advertising text printed on recto. Text promotes the balsam as a "safe and effective remedy" for several ailments, including griping pains, headache, hysterics, nervous tremors and twitchings, and "for all bowel affections and nervous diseases."
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Upper right corner missing.
Subject Jayne, David, 1799-1866.
Nonprescription drug industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Children.
Nursing.
Women.
Genre Labels -- 1850-1860.
Engravings -- 1850-1860.
Printer Jayne, David, 1799-1866, copyright holder.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Labels [P.2011.10.170]
Accession number P.2011.10.170