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- Title
- Sapanule: Sold By All Druggists
- Description
- Trade card advertising Sapanule featuring three figures and a dog. Towards the left is a boy courting a girl with a flower. In his right hand is a discus-type object. Between them is a dog holding a flower in its mouth. Towards the right is a boy lying down reading a book. He is wearing glasses and a small hat with a decoration on top. On the far right side of the card is a wreath of flowers and leaves. To its left is a thermometer. The back lists the ailments Sapanule can cure.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Diphtheria, Inflammation, Neuralgia, Pneumonia, Rheumatism, Throat—Diseases
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Animals, Books And Reading, Children, Children's Clothing, Children's Hats, Costume, Dogs, Dress And Clothing, Eyeglasses, Flowers, Flying Discs (Game), Hats, Thermometers
- ID
- WH340
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- 19. Execution : a full and true account of the last speech and dying declaration of William Burke, who was executed at Edinburgh this morning, for murder, and his body given for dissection; also of his conduct and behaviour since his condemnation, and on the scaffold
- Description
- Illustrated broadside. Cut and mounted.
- Language
- English
- Collection
- The Resurrectionists
- Title
- Ayer's Sarsaparilla
- Description
- Trade card advertising Ayer's Sarsaparilla featuring an image of a man in a dressing gown holding a bottle of Ayer's Sarsaparilla and reading a paper advertising the medicine. A woman wearing a bonnet and a dress with lace cuffs and collar reads over his shoulder and clasps his arm. The back explains the product's health benefits and has an image of an animal intertwined with the word "MIND."
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Asthenia, Body Fluids, Catarrh, Eczema, Furuncle, Indigestion, Lymph Node, Rheumatism, Tuberculosis
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Bottles, Clothing And Dress, Lace And Lacemaking, Men, Men's Clothing, Sarsaparilla, Women, Women's Clothing, Women's Hats
- ID
- WH111
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Vaseline Chesebrough Manfg Co.
- Description
- Trade card primarily advertising Pure Vaseline featuring a beach scene with two children playing in the foreground. They are both wearing yellow hats and playing in the sand with shovels and a single pail. Behind them stands a woman with a parasol. She is in formal dress, with an overcoat, ruffled skirt, and yellow bow on her hip. There are various people on the beach and in the ocean as well is what looks like a cruise ship in the far background. The back contains a poem titled The Elixir Vitae and lists prices for various vaseline products.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Asthma, Burns And Scalds, Cold (Disease), Croup, Neuralgia, Rheumatism
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Beaches, Boats And Boating, Bows, Children, Children's Hats, Clothing And Dress, Crabs, Hats, Parasols, Ribbons, Sand Pails, Sand Toys, Shovels, Water, Water Waves, Women's Hats
- ID
- WH369
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Vesalius’s De humani corporis Fabrica
- Description
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Andreas Vesalius’s De humani corporis Fabrica of 1543 is probably the most beautiful anatomical atlas produced in the 16th century. Vesalius, the 28 year old professor of anatomy at the University of Padua at the time of the book’s publication, spared no expense in hiring extraordinary craftsmen to create the woodblocks to illustrate his monumental atlas and we know that some of the drawings that were transferred to the blocks were made by Jan Stephen van Calcar, a Venetian artist working in Titian’s studio, although the block cutters themselves are unidentified. Despite Vesalius’s attempt to protect the images in the Fabrica through the acquisition of various royal privileges, they immediately became extremely popular and were widely reproduced in many other publications.
In 1932, Samuel Lambert, who had been the Academy's 32nd president, began raising money for the publication of the Icones Anatomicae, an edition of all of the images from the two editions of the Fabrica (1543 and 1555) and some of Vesalius’s other publications. Lambert studied and wrote about the historiated initials that appeared in the Fabrica, and a colleague suggested to him that the original wood blocks might still survive. He wrote to Dr. Willy Wiegand of the Bremer Press in Munich, asking if he would do some investigation. Wiegand visited the library at the University of Munich and a search turned up a box containing 227 of the blocks used in the production of the Fabrica and its companion publication from 1543, the Epitome (but none of the blocks for the initials). In light of this felicitous discovery, Lambert approached the Academy with the idea of publishing an edition of the rediscovered images.
Lambert envisioned a very ambitious and beautiful book, which is described at length in the Prospectus. After the discovery of the blocks, Lambert began raising money for a Library Publication Fund, and amassed over $15,000 from various donors by the end of 1932. The University of Munich agreed to co-publish the volume with NYAM, and Willy Wiegand, the head of the Bremer Press, was engaged as the printer. As we can see from the information in the Prospectus, no expense was spared in the creation of the book. Fine handmade paper with a special watermark was created especially for the volume, and photographic reproductions of the missing blocks were made and subtly marked in the descriptive tables.
Four hundred copies of the Icones Anatomicae were printed and sent to NYAM; an additional 295 copies were printed for the European market. At the same time, a small number of portfolios of 40 loose plates, the Tabulae Selectae, was printed as well. For years, individuals wrote to the NYAM librarians requesting individual images from the Tabula, which were sold at a very modest price. The portfolio was also available as a complete set. The title pages of both the 1543 and the 1555 editions of the Fabrica are included in the Tabula, along with a number of the skeletons, muscle men and flayed men that are some of the Fabrica's most iconic images.
Sadly, both the woodblocks and all of the copies of the German edition of the Icones were destroyed during the bombing of Munich in the summer of 1944, so NYAM has the distinction of being the organization that was responsible for the final inking and printing of the beautiful 16th century blocks.
Vesalius, Andreas. [Icones anatomicae, tabulae selecta]. Munich, 1935.
Photography by Ardon Bar-Hama courtesy of George Blumenthal.
- Title
- Good For Man or Beast [from verso]
- Description
- Trade card printed on two sides advertising Dr. Streeter's Magic Liniment, a remedy for cramps and aching joints. Trimmed
- Subjects (LC)
- Drawings, Puzzles, Walking
- Manufacturer
- Dr. Streeter's Magnetic Liniment
- ID
- WH355
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- I's All Right Now!: In Constant Use Since 1795
- Description
- Trade card advertising Dr. Isaac Thompson's Eye Water featuring two girls in a red armchair. The older of the two is holding a bottle of what seems to be Dr. Isaac Thompson's Eye Water in her right hand. Her left hand is around the shoulders of the younger girl who is holding a tissue. They are both in dresses and have brown-blond hair. The back describes the meritous reputation of the Eye Water.
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Bottles, Chairs, Children, Children's Clothing, Clothing And Dress
- ID
- WH368
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Wheat Bitters
- Description
- Trade card advertising What Bitters featuring an image of a naked angel driving a cart with a large bottle of Wheat Bitters on it. The cart is pulled by two dogs, and two more naked angels run behind it. The back lists the curative properties of Wheat Bitters.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Biliary Tract—Diseases, Constipation, Delirium Tremens, Fever, Indigestion, Jaundice, Malaria, Neuralgia, Paralysis
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Angels, Animals, Bottles, Carriages And Carts, Cherubs, Dogs, Folklore, Grasslands, Mythology, Stone Walls, Trees
- ID
- WH196
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Dr. A.C. Hoxsie's Certain Croup Cure
- Description
- Trade card printed on two sides advertising Dr. A.C. Hoxsie's Certain Croup Cure, a remedy for coughs and colds.
- Subjects (LC)
- Bouquets, Girls, Hats
- Manufacturer
- Dr. A.C. Hoxsie
- Language
- English
- ID
- WH277
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- NYAM Lectures Broadcast by WNYC
- Description
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Forty lectures on medicine and society that NYAM produced and WNYC-FM broadcast in the 1950s. Digitized from the original lacquer disks.
- Title
- The Little Pets [from verso]
- Description
- Trade card printed on two sides advertising Scott's Emulsion, a remedy for the "wasting diseases" of adults and children.
- Subjects (LC)
- Children and animals
- Manufacturer
- Scott & Bowne (New York (N.Y.))
- Language
- English
- ID
- WH351
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Burdock Blood Bitters
- Description
- Trade card advertising Burdock Blood Bitters featuring a portrait of an extravagantly-dressed woman with gold jewelry, flowers adorning her headdress and dress, and a tambourine. The back lists the benefits of taking Burdock Blood Bitters.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Asthenia
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Clothing And Dress, Embroidery, Flowers, Gold Jewelry, Musical Instruments, Portraits, Shawls, Tambourine
- ID
- WH127
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Pomet's Bezoar with Goat
- Description
- The French druggist Pierre Pomet devotes a section of his comprehensive history of drugs to bezoars, explaining that the stones appear in the stomachs of cows, apes, and goats. Pomet's goat leaps over a bezoar, sliced open like a geode to reveal its efficacious core. Pomet argues that this bezoar, produced in the belly of a high-leaping wild goat common in the East Indies, would promote sweat and drive away malignant humors. We'd wager Monsieur Pomet, apothecary to Louis XIV, could give even Snape a run for his wand in a battle of the Potion-Masters.
- Collection
- How to Pass Your O.W.L.s at Hogwarts: A Prep Course
- Title
- Defense Against the Dark Arts
- Description
-
Harry’s scar serves as a constant reminder that it is a dangerous world out there, with powerful wizards capable of great destruction. Familiarize yourself with these Defense-Against-the-Dark-Arts protections, and you’ll feel a little more confident about facing He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named…or at least develop some strategies for making it through class unscathed.
Disclaimer: This exhibition is not licensed or endorsed by Warner Bros. or J.K. Rowling.
- Title
- Burdock Blood Bitters
- Description
- Trade card advertising Burdock Blood Bitters featuring a young boy sitting on a pedestal, smiling largely. He is holding a bottle of Burdock Blood Bitters, and is dressed in an exuberant outfit with a white, fanned collar, a blue tunic with a yellow-and-red-striped sash, and pink socks with black boots. The back cautions against doing various activities while suffering from various ailments that Burdock Blood Bitters helps cure.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Asthenia, Biliary Tract—Diseases, Constipation, Indigestion
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Bottles, Children, Children's Clothing, Clothing And Dress, Portraits
- ID
- WH129
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Lykosthenes' Salamander
- Description
- Konrad Lykosthenes tells us in 1557 that the salamander has a highly toxic venom, so strong it would taint all of the fruit on a tree it climbed. He also connects the animal with fire, arguing that the salamander can put out flames with its touch. In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, salamanders are born from flames; Fred and George also feed one fireworks as a prank, and it releases tangerine stars (not inappropriate given the stellar designs on this fellow's back). Don't let the twins give you any ideas or that'll be ten points from Gryffindor.
- Collection
- How to Pass Your O.W.L.s at Hogwarts: A Prep Course
- Title
- Malena is the best remedy on Earth [from verso]
- Description
- Back of trade card advertising Malena, a remedy for skin disorders and joint diseases. Text provides instructions on use for various ailments.
- Manufacturer
- Malena Co. (Warriors Mark (Pa.: Township))
- Language
- English
- ID
- WH300
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- This is all right, Hood's Sarsaparilla Can't Fool me twice
- Description
- Trade card advertising Hood's Sarsaparilla featuring an elderly man outside a pharmacy looking at a box of Hood's Sarsaparilla. He is wearing a yellow jacket and holding a red umbrella under his left arm. Behind him are buildings and a fountain. The back is an advertisement for a concert as well as a description of the ailments Hood's Sarsaparilla can cure.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Headache, Indigestion
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Animals, Clothing And Dress, Drugstores, Fountains, Hats, Men, Men's Hats, Owls, Portraits, Umbrellas, Water
- ID
- WH388
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Bronx