[drop head title:] BARRY'S PAIN RELIEF. A Purely Vegetable Preparation.

Bookseller Notes

A well-preserved two-leaf advertisement of Dr Barry's relief an 'extraordinary remedy [] made from a recipe, received from an Indian called O-gu-sa-wah, the chief medicine man of the tribe of Crow Indians'. The medicine man had allegedly presented it as a gift, a few years earlier, to a trapper who had helped him whilst he was hunting alone in Nebraska. The ingredients are 'roots, leaves, barks, plants, flowers and gums', and 'its power over pain seems to have no limit', having been tried on 'bruises, sprains, sores, cuts, wounds, burns, cramps, colics, gripes, diarrhea, dysentery, nausea, vomiting'. The remainder of the advertisement explains how to apply the remedy on sundry kinds of ailments (external and internal).The remedy was entered according to an Act of Congress by Barclay in 1877. In May of the same year, it was registered as trade-mark medical compound #4642 in the U.S. Patent Office, by George C. Barclay of Brooklyn. The entry specifies 'the figure of a North American Indian, used in connection with the words "Barry's Pain Relief"' (New Remedies, p.220).Scarce: copies recorded at British Library and McFarlin Library, Tulsa. See New Remedies: An Illustrated Monthly Trade Journal of Materia Medica (1877), vol.6.