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Title: Words of Comfort [from verso]
Description: Trade card advertising Dr. Jayne's Expectorant and Dr. Jayne's Tonic Vermifuge featuring three women and one man sitting around a table. The man is reading a book and is in formal dress and wearing eyeglasses. The three women seem interested in and puzzled by what he is reading. There is a vase on the table, and the backdrop seems to resemble some sort of living room or study area. The back lists the benefits of the Expectorant and the Tonic Vermifuge.
Conditions Cured (LC): Bad Breath, Cold (Disease), Cough, Fever, Headache, Helminths, Indigestion
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Books, Costume, Domestic Space, Dress And Clothing, Dwellings, Ethnic Costume, Eyeglasses, Families, Men, Men's Clothing, Women, Women's Clothing, Women's Hats
ID: WH160
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Ayer's Ague Cure Is Warranted to Cure All Malarial Disorders
Description: Trade card advertising Ayer's Ague Cure featuring a landscape image of a tropical place containing trees and foliage, a log cabin, two people and a heron-looking bird on the shore, and a person in a row boat. In the bottom right is a magnified view of an alligator or crocodile seemingly conversing with two frogs, one of which is holding a bottle and the other one of which is leaning on a box with the writing Ayer's Ague Cure on it. The back has an image of a bottle labeled Ayer's Ague Cure that is upright on a lilly pad with a frog standing on its back legs while touching the bottle with its front legs. The text lists the ailments Ayer's Ague Cure treats.
Conditions Cured (LC): Biliary Tract—Diseases, Fever, Malaria, Typhoid Fever
Subjects (LC): Acquatic Reptiles, Advertising—Medicine, Alligators, Amphibians, Animals—Caricatures And Cartoons, Aquatic Animals, Birds, Boats And Boating, Bog Animals, Bottles, Crocodiles, Frogs, Herons, Jungles, Log Cabins, Nature, Swamps, Trees
ID: WH124
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: The Jerseys [from verso]
Description: Trade card advertising Dr. Jayne's Expectorant, Dr. Jayne's Liniment, and Dr. Jayne's Tonic Vermifuge featuring a young girl flanked by two milk cows. She is facing the audience and carrying a metal pail in her left hand. She is wearing a pink dress with white accents and a white bonnet. The cows are light brown, and all three figures are in a field with mountains and a sunset behind them. The back features the curative properties of the items advertised.
Conditions Cured (LC): Asthma, Cold (Disease), Cough, Helminths, Indigestion, Pleurisy, Throat—Diseases, Tuberculosis, Whooping Cough
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Animals, Cows, Dairy Cattle—Feeding And Feeds, Dress And Clothing, Flowers, Forests And Forestry, Grasslands, Mountains, Nature, Pitchers, Sunset Phenomena, Trees, Women, Women's Hats
ID: WH163
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: The Jerseys [from verso]
Description: Trade card advertising Dr. Jayne's Expectorant, Dr. Jayne's Vermifuge, and Dr. Jayne's Tonic Vermifuge featuring a young girl flanked by two milk cows. She is facing the audience and carrying a metal pail in her left hand. She is wearing a pink dress with white accents and a white bonnet. The cows are light brown, and all three figures are in a field with mountains and a sunset behind them. The back features the curative properties of the items advertised.
Conditions Cured (LC): Asthma, Cold (Disease), Cough, Helminths, Indigestion, Pleurisy, Throat—Diseases, Tuberculosis, Whooping Cough
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Animals, Cows, Dairy Cattle—Feeding And Feeds, Dress And Clothing, Flowers, Forests And Forestry, Grasslands, Mountains, Nature, Pitchers, Sunset Phenomena, Trees, Women, Women's Hats
ID: WH164
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: The Jerseys [from verso]
Description: Trade card advertising Dr. Jayne's Expectorant, Dr. Jayne's Liniment, and Dr. Jayne's Tonic Vermifuge featuring a young girl flanked by two milk cows. She is facing the audience and carrying a metal pail in her left hand. She is wearing a pink dress with white accents and a white bonnet. The cows are light brown, and all three figures are in a field with mountains and a sunset behind them. The back features the curative properties of the items advertised.
Conditions Cured (LC): Asthma, Bronchitis, Cold (Disease), Cough, Helminths, Indigestion, Pleurisy, Throat—Diseases, Tuberculosis, Whooping Cough
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Animals, Cows, Dairy Cattle—Feeding And Feeds, Dress And Clothing, Flowers, Forests And Forestry, Grasslands, Mountains, Nature, Pitchers, Sunset Phenomena, Trees, Women, Women's Hats
ID: WH284
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Dr. Morses
Description: Trade card advertising Dr. Morse's Compound Syrup of Yellow Dock Root featuring a woman with a woven backpack filled with grapes, gold hooped earrings, a verdant dress, and a grape hook in her right hand. She is barefooted, and there is a snail by her left foot. She has a bunch of grapes in her left hand. Her sash reads: "BORDEAUX."
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Animals, Baskets, Costume, Dress And Clothing, Earrings, Ethnic Costume, Gold Jewelry, Grapes, Grasslands, Hats, Leaves, Nature, Scarves, Snails, Wine, Women's Hats
ID: WH176
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Naughty Puss!: Jayne's Tonic Vermifuge [from verso]
Description: Trade card advertising Dr. Jayne's Expectorant, Dr. Jayne's Liniment, and Dr. Jayne's Tonic Vermifuge featuring a young girl inspecting a scratch her cat, to her left, seemingly just gave her. She is wearing a blue, frilled dress. There is a ball on the floor by her right foot, and she is surrounded by ornate home decorations, such as a rug, tablecloth, and vase on a table filled with pink flowers. She has a blue bow in her hair, and the cat has a yellow ribbon around its neck. The back features the curative properties of the items advertised.
Conditions Cured (LC): Asthma, Bronchitis, Cold (Disease), Cough, Croup, Helminths, Indigestion, Pleurisy, Throat—Diseases, Tuberculosis, Whooping Cough
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Animals, Balls—Sporting Goods, Bouquets, Bows, Carpets, Cats, Children, Children's Clothing, Domestic Space, Dress And Clothing, Dwellings, Flower Vases, Flowers, Infants—Wounds And Injuries, Ribbons, Rugs, Skin—Wounds And Injuries, Textile Fabrics
Language: English
ID: WH166
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Sapanule: Sold By All Druggists
Description: Trade card advertising Sapanule featuring a well-dressed couple walking in a park. There is a Cupid figure watching them from behind a pedestal with a vase of flowers on it about to shoot them with his bow. There is a dog by the couple's feet. The park is ornate and has a fountain and paved paths. The back lists the ailments Sapanule can cure.
Conditions Cured (LC): Backache, Bruises, Bunion, Burns And Scalds, Catarrh, Chilblains, Furuncle, Hemorrhoids, Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Sprains, Wounds And Injuries
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Animals, Costume, Dogs, Dress And Clothing, Eros (Greek Deity), Ethnic Costume, Flower Vases, Flowers, Folklore, Fountains, Garden Walks, Grasslands, Hats, Men's Clothing, Men's Hats, Men's Hats, Mythology, Nature, Parks, Pedestals, Trees, Water And Architecture, Women's Clothing
ID: WH197
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Naughty Puss!: Jayne's Tonic Vermifuge [from verso]
Description: Trade card advertising Dr. Jayne's Expectorant, Dr. Jayne's Liniment, and Dr. Jayne's Tonic Vermifuge featuring a young girl inspecting a scratch her cat, to her left, seemingly just gave her. She is wearing a blue, frilled dress. There is a ball on the floor by her right foot, and she is surrounded by ornate home decorations, such as a rug, tablecloth, and vase on a table filled with pink flowers. She has a blue bow in her hair, and the cat has a yellow ribbon around its neck. The back features the curative properties of the items advertised.
Conditions Cured (LC): Asthma, Bronchitis, Cold (Disease), Cough, Croup, Helminths, Indigestion, Pleurisy, Throat—Diseases, Tuberculosis, Whooping Cough
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Animals, Balls—Sporting Goods, Bouquets, Bows, Carpets, Cats, Children, Children's Clothing, Domestic Space, Dress And Clothing, Dwellings, Flower Vases, Flowers, Infants—Wounds And Injuries, Ribbons, Rugs, Skin—Wounds And Injuries, Textile Fabrics
ID: WH165
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Sapanule: Sold By All Druggists
Description: Trade card advertising Sapanule featuring a well-dressed couple walking in a park. There is a Cupid figure watching them from behind a pedestal with a vase of flowers on it about to shoot them with his bow. There is a dog by the couple's feet. The park is ornate and has a fountain and paved paths. The back lists the ailments Sapanule can cure.
Conditions Cured (LC): Backache, Bruises, Bunion, Burns And Scalds, Catarrh, Chilblains, Fatigue, Furuncle, Hemorrhoids, Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Sprains, Wounds And Injuries
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Animals, Costume, Dogs, Dress And Clothing, Eros (Greek Deity), Ethnic Costume, Flower Vases, Flowers, Folklore, Fountains, Garden Walks, Grasslands, Hats, Men's Clothing, Men's Hats, Men's Hats, Mythology, Nature, Parks, Pedestals, Trees, Water And Architecture, Women's Clothing
ID: WH344
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

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