Hamlin's Wizard Oil Song Book

Chicago, IL: Hamlin's Wizard Oil Co, 1899. Series imprint. Staplebound. Good in Wraps. Series imprint. Staplebound. Hamlin's Wizard Oil was an American patent medicine sold as a cure-all under the slogan "There is no Sore it will Not Heal, No Pain it will not Subdue." First produced in 1861 in Chicago by former magician John Austin Hamlin and his brother Lysander Butler Hamlin, it was primarily sold and used as a liniment for rheumatic pain and sore muscles. It was made of 50–70% alcohol containing camphor, ammonia, chloroform, sassafras, cloves, and turpentine, and was said to be usable both internally and topically. Traveling performance troupes advertised the product in medicine shows across the Midwest and included this songbook as part of the advertising. Includes client testimonies and advertising. Moderate toning, tearing, rubbing, and chipping to wrappers, else uncompromised text, exception to rear wrapper. Booklet, unpaged, illus (b/w). Original printed wrappers.