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Perry Davis' Pain Killer polka song sheet music ad, ca. 1899

The medicine's name becomes a dance tune, and three cartoon ovals take a man from doubled over in pain to dancing a polka with the bottle raised.

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Around the World in 40 Years, pain liniment booklet

Pain-Killer's forty-year spread, from one poor inventor in Providence to factories, farms, ships and mission stations around the world, is itself the proof that it works.

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Pain Killer annual, 1871 and 1872

A two-year annual of calendars and sick-room recipes for the family nurse, built around one instruction: every household must keep Perry Davis' Pain-Killer always near at hand.

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Pain-Killer almanac and family receipt book, 1867

The first Pain-Killer almanac trades accurate calendars and household receipts for a lasting place in the home, where missionaries' letters make the case for one universal family medicine.

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Perry Davis Pain Killer polka sheet music

A comic polka for the parlour piano whose cover tells the Pain-Killer promise as a three-step joke: agony, a dose, then dancing.

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