Dr. Thomas’ Eclectric Oil

Title: Dr. Thomas’ Eclectric Oil
Description: The trade card shows a cat and five kittens on top of a desk, looking at and interacting with a globe. On the globe, “Dr. Thomas’ Eclectric Oil is used all around the world” is written. Originally intended to treat colds, the product was expanded as a universal cure for muscular pains, rheumatisms, neuralgia, joint aches, and sprains. Eclectric oil was derived from mix of alcohol, chloroform, opium extract, and other assorted ingredients. The product was known as a magical painkiller.
Identifier: 2022-JL-PMA-05
Creator: Foster-Milburn Company; Dr. Samuel N. Thomas
Date Created: 1850-1905
Medium: trade cards
Spatial Coverage: Buffalo
Subject: advertisements; Patent medicines; Drugs, Nonprescription; Cats; Kittens in art; Globes; Cold (Disease); Alcohol; Chloroform; Opium; Myalgia
Rights: NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES
Source: U.S. National Library of Medicine; University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences Library
Relation: https://library.usa.edu/dr-thomas-eclectric-oil