Jay[ne's] Carmina[tive] Balsam. Prepared only by Dr. Jayne, wholesale druggist & chemist, no. 84 Chestnut Street below Third, Philada
No. 84 Chestnut Street and without whose signature to this label it cannot be genuine. D. Jayne [facsimile signature]
Jayne, David
1799-1866
copyright holder
still image
Graphic
Labels -- 1850-1860
Engravings -- 1850-1860
pau
Philadelphia
PA. Philadelphia
D. Jayne & Son
c1857
1857
monographic
eng
1 print: engraving; 14 x 13 cm. (5.5 x 5 in.)
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.
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."
Forms part of Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection.
Jayne, David
1799-1866
Nonprescription drug industry
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Children
Nursing
Women
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