Museum Collections
Luce Center
Medicine
Object Number:
2002.1.2530
Date:
1869
Medium:
Paper
Dimensions:
6 1/8 x 3/4 in. diameter
Description:
A rolled up tube of paper with a medicinal plaster inside. It is printed in green with evergreen trees flanking the words, in red and green "Paine's/ Highly and Justly Celebrated/ Green- Mountain/ Balm of Gilead and Cedar Plaster/ ...Apothecaries Hall, corner Main and State Sts. Windsor, VT./ M.K. Paine, Druggist", with only partially legible directions for use. Has a postmark from February 1869
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.