Perscription

Perscription

Two pieces of paper giving instructions on use of patent medicine Large piece printed in red and black Chinese characters was used as a wrapper for the medicine. Smaller one 4.75" X 3.625" is printed in black ink with decorative frame showing grapes bamboo and flowers around a globe. There is a portrait of a man in the center and Chinese characters in the globe and in two bands at the top and bottom. Originally wrapped around medicine for kidney illness.

1997.055.153