Details

Subject(s)

• Mineral oils—Therapeutic use [Browse]
• Patent medicines [Browse]

Related name

• Peirce, Joseph [Browse]
• D. Hail & Co. [Browse]
• P. Dickinson & Co. [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Advertisements—Mineral oils [Browse]
• Advertisements—Patent medicines [Browse]

Series

American broadsides and ephemera. First series ; no. 7854. [More in this series]

Notes

• Advertisement, accompanied by certificates, endorsing the "American oil," discovered at a well near Burksville, Ky., and found to be "an oil of the most volatile kind, and possessing properties of a highly medicinal nature."
• Title page, p. [1], includes wood-engraving with bordering caption: Use nature's remedy, and enjoy heaven's greatest earthly blessing--health! The best physician is only the assistant of nature.
• A description of the discovery and properties of the oil and "Directions for use," p. 2, signed: D. Hail & Co., proprietors, Kentucky. J. Peirce & Co., general agents for the world, Rochester, N.Y. Having the entire control of the well, all letters addressed to J. Peirce & Co., will receive immediate attention.
• "All letters addressed to Joseph Peirce & Co., Box No. 578, post-paid, will be promptly answered, and all orders for oil will receive prompt attention, when money is sent. The oil is retailed at one dollar per bottle. ... I shall soon have agents traveling in all parts of the Union, making local agencies. My residence is, at present, no. 7 William-Street, Rochester, N.Y. Aug. 1851."--p. 4. Signed: Joseph Peirce.
• "P. Dickinson & Co., no. 25 Dock Square, Boston, wholesale and retail agents."--p. 4.
• Text printed in two columns.

Reproduction note

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2005. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (American broadsides and ephemera. First series ; no. 7854).

Place name(s)

• United States New York Rochester.
• United States Massachusetts Boston.

Other title(s)

Use nature's remedy, and enjoy heaven's greatest earthly blessing--health!

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