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Title: Dr. Grosvenor's Liveraid, Cures All Diseases of the Stomach Liver & Blood
Description: Trade card advertising Dr. Grosvenor's Liveraid and Bellanodyne featuring a sign that reads: "Dr. Grosvenor's Liveraid, cures all diseases of the stomach, liver, & blood. Small doses, prompt effect." The sign has a bouquet of flowers inserted in it. In the foreground is a body of water with two frogs and three ducks. The back is obscured, but lists the ailments the Liveraid cures and mentions a pain-relieving plaster called Bellanodyne.
Conditions Cured (LC): Biliary Tract-Diseases, Constipation, Headache, Indigestion, Malaria, Rheumatism
Subjects (LC): Acquatic Animals, Advertising—Medicine, Amphibians, Animals, Ducks, Flowers, Frogs, Grasslands, Nature, Trees, Water, Water Lilies
ID: WH270
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Mother Swan's Worm Syrup
Description: Trade card advertising Mother Swan's Worm Syrup, Wells' Complete Cure, Wells' May Apple Pills, Wells' Health Renewer, and Buchu-Paiba featuring various illustrations related to the different items advertised. There is a picture of a swan with its children, a picture of a dead rat, and a picture of a man leaning his head back and opening his mouth. The back is a blank template for a postcard.
Conditions Cured (LC): Agitation (Psychology), Biliary Tract—Diseases, Constipation, Fever, Helminths, Impotence, Indigestion
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Animals, Rats, Swans, Water
ID: WH376
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Dr. Grosvenor's Liveraid, Cures All Diseases of the Stomach Liver & Blood
Description: Trade card advertising Dr. Grosvenor's Liveraid and Bellanodyne featuring a sign that reads: "Dr. Grosvenor's Liveraid, cures all diseases of the stomach, liver, & blood. Small doses, prompt effect." The sign has a bouquet of flowers inserted in it. In the foreground is a body of water with two frogs and three ducks. The back lists the ailments the Liveraid cures and mentions a pain-relieving plaster called Bellanodyne.
Conditions Cured (LC): Biliary Tract-Diseases, Constipation, Headache, Indigestion, Malaria, Rheumatism
Subjects (LC): Acquatic Animals, Advertising—Medicine, Amphibians, Animals, Ducks, Flowers, Frogs, Grasslands, Nature, Trees, Water, Water Lilies
ID: WH269
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Ils barbotent dans l'eau toute la journée!...jamais de rhume, jamais de fatigue, depuis qu'ils prennent leurs 20 gouttes de véritable Fer Bravais
Description: Trade card advertising Fer Bravais featuring two formally-dressed children on a beach looking at a toy sailboat. By their feet are a pail, a crab, and a shovel. The image is framed by a myriad of aquatic and maritime items. The back lists the ailments Fer Bravais can cure.
Conditions Cured (LC): Chlorosis, Fatigue, Influenza, Typhoid Fever
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Anchors, Animals, Beaches, Boats And Boating, Children, Children's Clothing, Children's Hats, Clothing And Dress, Coral Colonies, Costume, Crabs, Ethnic Costume, Lighthouses, Marine Algae, Nature, Ocean, Sailboats—Models, Sand Pails, Sand Toys, Shovels, Water
ID: WH201
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Toll Gate No. 4 [from verso]
Description: Trade card advertising a book titled "The Sexual System and its Derangements" and the medicine Cutavaco featuring a landscape with various hidden images in it. The obvious things the picture presents are a man walking on a path with a dog; a bridge over water with a figure rowing a boat beneath it; a house at the entrance to the bridge with a figure leaning against its side; and a town on a mountain in the distance. The back praises the book being advertised and also lists the ailments Cutavaco can cure.
Conditions Cured (LC): Acne, Bad Breath, Baldness, Bites And Stings, Catarrh, Cholera, Ear Infection, Eczema, Edema, Erythema, Helminths, Leucorrhea, Measles, Pediculosis, Poison Ivy, Ringworm, Salt Rheum, Scarlatina, Scars, Shingles (Disease), Smallpox, Throat—Diseases, Typhoid Fever, Urticaria
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Alligators, Animals, Birds, Bridges, Camels, Cows, Dogs, Flies, Geese, Goats, Horses, Housing, Insects, Monkeys, Nature, Peacocks, Rabbits, Rodents, Snails, Swans, Trails, Trees, Water
ID: WH252
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: P. S. Brown & Co., Botanic Druggists
Description: Trade card advertising druggists P. S. Brown & Co. featuring a deer on the bank of a body of water. The deer is surrounded by different-colored ferns and blue flowers.
Subjects (LC): Advertising, Animals, Deer, Flowers, Nature, Trees, Water, Water Lilies
ID: WH205
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Dr. Morse's Compound Syrup of Yellow Dock Root Regulating the Liver and Digestive Organs and Purifying the Blood
Description: Trade card advertising Dr. Morse's Compound Syrup of Yellow Dock Root featuring a tree populated by various animals. At its base is a bull. There are two quadruped animals in its branches. An owl perches on the frame of the advertisement text. In the background is a body of water with birds flying over it.
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Animals, Birds, Bulls, Nature, Owls, Trees, Water
ID: WH387F
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

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