Dual-sided bilingual (English and High German) advertisement for "Mrs. Dr. Knab's Magic Indian Vegetable Pain Killer."
26 people listed who endorse the product dated Aug. 20, 1866. Directions appear for treatment of coughs, cold, fever and ague, asthma and phthisic, dyspepsia, liver complaint, acid stomach, head ache, heartburn and indigestion, canker in the mouth, throat and stomach, cancer rash, kidney complaints, piles, sick headache and seasickness, cramp and pain in the stomach, painters' cholic, diarrhea, a summer complaint, dysentery, cholera infantum, cholera, frost bites and chilblains, sprains and bruises, whitlows, felons and boils, ringworms, rheumatism and neuralgic affection, pain in the side, back and loins, stings and bites of poisonous insects, wounds by fish hooks or the fins of fish.
The medicine is "prepared and sold by Mrs. Dr. Knab, No. 10 Church Street, near South Queen, Lancaster, Pa., where all kinds of Root and Herb Medicines can be obtained."
Printed by the Daily Intelligencer Steam Job Printing Office, Centre Square, Lancaster, Pa."
Admin/Biographical History
"A Dutch Indian: Mrs. Dr. Knab, who has a 'laboratory' in Church st., where she prepares an article she calls a Pain Killer, and which she vends on our markets and throughout this and the adjoining counties, appeared in Centre Square, this morning, in the costume of an Indian squaw, taking a position on a stand, from which she harrangued a gaping crowd, on the virtues of her 'medicine,' in broken English. The scene was ludicrous in the extreme, and as each one left the crowd which surrounded her, a broad smile was visible on his or her countenance." The Daily Evening Express, 16 November 1867, p. 2.
Some center fold marks. A portion missing on upper right edge and top center.
Object ID
MG0153_Ovrszd_F001
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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