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Title: Morse's Yellow Dock the Great Blood Purifier and Kidney Remedy
Description: Trade card advertising Morse's Yellow Dock featuring a kitten's head turned to the right. Around its neck is a blue bow with some red in it. The back has a dataset for countries around the world.
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Animals, Bows, Cats
ID: WH309
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Hanson's Magic Corn Salve is Warranted to Cure Corns, Bunions, Warts, Etc.
Description: Trade card advertising Hanson's Magic Corn Salve featuring a card or ribbon of some sort with text that reads: "Hanson's Magic Corn Salve is warranted to cure corns, bunions, warts, etc. (over." The card is surrounded by roses. The back lists the ailments the Salve can cure.
Conditions Cured (LC): Bunion, Warts
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Flowers, Leaves, Nature
ID: WH272
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
Description: Trade card advertising Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Lydia E. Pinkham's Liver Pills featuring a bouquet of red and purple flowers with green leaves. The back lists the ailments the items can cure.
Conditions Cured (LC): Asthenia, Backache, Depression, Headache, Indigestion, Insomnia, Neurasthenia, Peptic Ulcer, Tumors
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Flowers, Leaves, Nature
ID: WH190
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Dr. Morse's Compound Syrup of Yellow Dock Root
Description: Trade card advertising Dr. Morse's Compound Syrup of Yellow Dock Root featuring a bouquet of red, pink, and blue flowers with some greenery.
Conditions Cured (LC): Biliary Tract—Diseases, Body Fluids, Constipation, Headache, Hemorrhoids, Indigestion
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Bouquets, Flowers, Roses
ID: WH312
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: Compliments of John S. Shaffer & Co., Druggists, Dealers in Dr. C. McLean's Liver Pills and Vermifuge
Description: Trade card advertising Dr. C. McLane's Liver Pills and Vermifuge featuring a bunch of pansies tied together with a red string. The back contains a customer testimony.
Conditions Cured (LC): Helminths
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Bouquets, Bows, Flowers, Pansies, Ribbons
ID: WH297
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
Description: Trade card advertising Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, Lydia E. Pinkham's Liver Pills, and Lydia E. Pinkham's Blood Purifier featuring an evening, winter landscape in which one can see two figures walking over a bridge. The bridge is over a small body of water, and there is a full moon in the sky. The back lists the benefits of the items advertised.
Conditions Cured (LC): Asthenia, Backache, Body Fluids, Depression, Mental, Erysipelas, Headache, Indigestion, Insomnia, Neurasthenia, Peptic Ulcer, Rheumatism, Salt Rheum, Scrofula, Tumors
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Bridges, Nature, Snow, Trees, Water
ID: WH184
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Dr. J. H. Schenck & Son's Family Medicines
Description: Trade card advertising Schenck's Pulmonic Syrup, Schenck's Seaweed Tonic, and Schenck's Mandrake Pills featuring a bouquet of roses on a black background. Back lists the products the card is advertising.
Conditions Cured (LC): Indigestion, Tuberculosis
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Bouquets, Flowers, Nature, Roses
ID: WH346
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
Description: Trade card advertising Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Lydia E. Pinkham's Liver Pills featuring a bouquet of orange, red, and white flowers with greenery. The back describes the ailments the items can cure.
Conditions Cured (LC): Asthenia, Backache, Biliary Tract—Diseases, Constipation, Depression, Headache, Indigestion, Inflammation, Insomnia, Neurasthenia, Peptic Ulcer, Tumors
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Bouquets, Flowers, Nature, Roses
ID: WH322
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Compliments of H. D. Thatcher & Co. Wholesale Druggists
Description: Trade card advertising Dr. C. McLane's Liver Pills and Vermifuge featuring a bunch of pansies tied together with a red string. The back is obscured, but contains a customer testimony.
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Bouquets, Bows, Flowers, Pansies, Ribbons
ID: WH296
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Dr. White's Specialty for Diphtheria & Sore Throat
Description: Trade card for Dr. White's Speciality for Diphtheria and Sore Throat featuring a bird holding a stem with pansies on it. The back has a stamp that reads: "Dr. White's Specialty for Diphtheria & Sore Throat. Sold by all Druggists. Price fifty cents."
Conditions Cured (LC): Diphtheria, Throat—Diseases
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Animals, Birds, Flowers, Nature, Pansies
ID: WH377
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Boyd's Medicated Conserves [from verso]
Description: Trade card advertising Boyd's Medicated Conserves featuring a blank space where one might presumably write an address. It is surrounded by a pink flower that a bee is pollinating. The back details how to get more illuminated cards by purchasing Boyd's products.
Conditions Cured (LC): Biliary Tract—Diseases, Headache
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Bees, Flowers, Insects, Roses
ID: WH233
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Going for Kendall's Spavin Cure
Description: Trade card advertising Kendall's Spavin Cure featuring a horse pulling a man who is being pulled by a dog. The man is straddled around a wooden stake, holding the horse's reins. The dog has a spotted collar and is biting the man on his rearend. The back features testimony from satisfied customers.
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Animals, Dogs, Horses, Men, Nature
ID: WH167
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Schenck's Seaweed Tonic for Dyspepsia and Debility
Description: Trade card adverising Schenck's Seaweed Tonic featuring a bouquet of red and white flowers. The back describes the nourishing properties of the Tonic.
Conditions Cured (LC): Asthenia, Indigestion
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Bouquets, Flowers, Nature, Roses
ID: WH347
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
Description: Trade card advertising Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Lydia E. Pinkham's Liver Pills featuring a bouquet of orange, red, and white flowers with green leaves. The back lists the ailments the items can cure.
Conditions Cured (LC): Asthenia, Backache, Depression, Headache, Indigestion, Insomnia, Neurasthenia, Peptic Ulcer, Tumors
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Bouquets, Flowers, Leaves, Nature
Language: English
ID: WH191
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Wheat Bitters
Description: Trade card advertising Wheat Bitters featuring an exhausted-looking man in a shroud reclining in a chair reaching out his hand towards another man who is carrying an oversized bottle of Wheat Bitters towards him. The back explains how Wheat Bitters works and how it can cure various illnesses.
Conditions Cured (LC): Fever, Malaria
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Bottles, Costume, Domestic Scenes
ID: WH195
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Hood's Sarsaparilla Purifies the Blood, Makes the Weak Strong, Creates an Appetite
Description: Trade card advertising Hood's Sarsaparilla featuring a young girl resting her chin in her hands on a pink-colored ledge with Hood's Sarsaparilla written on it. She is wearing a blue dress with white frills at the cuffs and a white garment on her head. She has a gold ring on the ring-finger of her right hand and short, dark-brown bangs. The back is an advertisement for a concert and variety program.
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Children, Children's Clothing, Portraits
Language: English
ID: WH142
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Miniature representation of Hood's No. 3 Placque
Description: Trade card advertising Hood's Sarsaparilla featuring a circular image of a buck with large antlers. He is standing in a field with grass and wildflowers. There is a snow-capped mountain in the back. The back quotes testimony from satisfied customers.
Conditions Cured (LC): Asthenia, Indigestion
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Animals, Deer, Mountains, Nature
ID: WH149
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Mentholatum Gives Comfort Daily
Description: Trade card advertising Mentholatum featuring a triptych of women applying mentholatum for various ailments.
Conditions Cured (LC): Cold (Disease)
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Health, Self-Care, Women
ID: WH169
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Mentholatum Gives Comfort Daily
Description: Trade card advertising Mentholatum featuring a triptych of women applying mentholatum for various ailments.
Conditions Cured (LC): Cold (Disease)
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Health, Self-Care, Women
ID: WH170
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

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