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- Ayer's Cherry Pectoral Cures Colds, Coughs & all Diseases of the Throat and Lungs
- Description
- Trade card advertising Ayer's Cherry Pectoral featuring an oversized bottle labeled Ayer's with two children at its side. The boy, on the left, is sitting and touching the bottle with his right hand and holding a spoon in his left. He is wearing a white tunic and red-and-white-striped socks. The girl, on the right, is standing, ostensibly trying to reach the top of the open bottle with her right hand, which holds a spoon. She is wearing a white, frilled dress, white stockings, a white bonnet tied with a blue ribbon, and blue Mary Janes. There is an enlarged branch with cherries on it in the top, left corner, and another, smaller sprig in the bottom, center. The back has images of two hands, one pouring a bottle, and one holding a spoon to catch the liquid. Listed on the back are the ailments Ayer's Cherry Pectoral cures.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Asthma, Catarrh, Cold (Disease), Cough, Croup, Influenza, Laryngitis, Throat—Diseases, Tuberculosis, Whooping Cough
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Bottles, Cherry, Children, Children's Clothing, Clothing And Dress, Nature, Spoons
- ID
- WH119
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Ayer's Cherry Pectoral Cures Coughs Colds &c: Penn's Treaty
- Description
- Trade card advertising Ayer's Cherry Pectoral featuring an image of a meeting between seven colonists (William Penn and others) and seven Native Americans. The Native Americans sit and stand to the left, and the colonists on the right present two scrolls that read "Ayer's Cherry Pectoral and Cures Colds, Coughs, &c." William Penn is holding a medicine bottle. The image is loosely based on Benjamin West's oil painting "The Treaty of Penn with the Indians." The back has an image of hands pouring medicine into a spoon in the upper left and text listing the curative properties of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Asthma, Catarrh, Cold (Disease), Cough, Croup, Influenza, Laryngitis, Throat—Diseases, Tuberculosis, Whooping Cough
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Clothing And Dress, Ethnic Costume, Hats, Indians Of North America, Indigenous Peoples, Men, Treaties
- ID
- WH117
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Ayer's Cherry Pectoral Cures Colds, Coughs & all Diseases of the Throat and Lungs
- Description
- Trade card advertising Ayer's Cherry Pectoral featuring an oversized bottle labeled Ayer's with two children at its side. The boy, on the left,is sitting and touching the bottle with his right hand and holding a spoon in his left. He is wearing a white tunic and red-and-white-striped socks. The girl, on the right, is standing, ostensibly trying to reach the top of the open bottle with her right hand, which holds a spoon. She is wearing a white, frilled dress, white stockings, a white bonnet tied with a blue ribbon, and blue Mary Janes. There is an enlarged branch with cherries on it in the top, left corner, and another, smaller sprig in the bottom, center. The back has images of two hands, one pouring a bottle, and one holding a spoon to catch the liquid. Listed on the back are the ailments Ayer's Cherry Pectoral cures.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Asthma, Catarrh, Cold (Disease), Cough, Croup, Influenza, Laryngitis, Throat—Diseases, Tuberculosis, Whooping Cough
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Bottles, Cherry, Children, Children's Clothing, Clothing And Dress, Nature, Spoons
- ID
- WH118
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Parker's Ginger Tonic
- Description
- Trade card advertising Parker's Hair Balsam and Parker's Ginger Tonic featuring a formally-dressed man sitting in an armchair defending himself against devilish creatures with an oversized box of Parker's Ginger Tonic. On the creatures' wings are written various ailments the Tonic cures. There is a broken crutch by the man's feet. The back describes the ailments the Balsam and the Tonic cure.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Body Fluids, Cold (Disease), Cough, Dandruff, Diarrhea, Heartburn, Indigestion, Itching, Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Tuberculosis
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Clothing And Dress, Costume, Crutches, Demonology, Devil, Domestic Space, Folklore, Men, Mythology
- ID
- WH318
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Dr. White's Celebrated Cough Drops [from verso]
- Description
- Trade card advertising Dr. White's Cough Drops featuring a sailboat in a body of water at sunset. To the left is a a rocky outcrop with a lighthouse. At the top of the card are a bunch of pansies. The back lists the ailments the Cough Drops can cure.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Cold (Disease), Cough, Hoarseness
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Boats And Boating, Flowers, Lighthouses, Nature, Ocean, Pansies, Rocks, Sailboats, Sunset Phenomena, Water
- ID
- WH379
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- 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
- 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
- Dr. White's Celebrated Cough Drops [from verso]
- Description
- Trade card advertising Dr. White's Cough Drops featuring a group of four people in a row boat rowing towards a sailboat. In the background is another sailboat and a cloudy sky. At the top of the card is a bunch of orange and pink flowers. The back lists the ailments the Cough Drops can cure.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Cold (Disease), Cough, Hoarseness
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Boats And Boating, Clouds, Flowers, Nature, Ocean, Sailboats, Water, Water Waves
- ID
- WH378
- 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, Lydia E. Pinkham's Blood Purifier, and Lydia E. Pinkham's Sanative Wash featuring an image of a fisherman in a wooden boat on a body of water. In the background there is a large house with a smoking chimney, a bridge, a mountain, and some greenery. The image is framed by sprigs of pink flowers. The back lists the benefits of the items advertised.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Asthenia, Backache, Depression, Headache, Indigestion, Insomnia, Neurasthenia, Peptic Ulcer, Tumors
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Bridges, Chimneys, Fishing, Flowers, Hats, Mountains, Nature, Smoke Plumes, Trees, Water, Water And Architecture
- ID
- WH187
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Dr. White's Cough Drops Are the Best
- Description
- Trade card advertising Dr. White's Cough Drops featuring a yellow rose and berries on the left and a circular image of a snowy landscape on the right. Within the image are a small house, a fence, some rocks, and some snow-covered trees. The back lists the ailments the Cough Drops can cure.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Cold (Disease), Cough, Hoarseness
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Berries, Flowers, Housing, Leaves, Nature, Rocks, Snow, Trees, Wooden Fences
- ID
- WH380
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Aristotle’s Masterpiece, Or The Secrets of Generation displayed in all the parts thereof
- Description
- Published initially in 1684 and popular in both America and England for over two hundred years, this became the most widely reprinted medical book in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The contributions of the Masterpiece were not particularly scientific, but drew largely from Hippocrates, and Galen, as well as other classical and medieval writers. The source material came from two earlier books: Levinus Lemnius’s Secret Miracles of Nature, originally published in Latin in 1599, and The Complete Midwives Practice Enlarged (author unknown). Chapter headings include sections titled, “The Signs of Barrenness” “The Way of getting to a Boy or a Girl,” “How a Midwife Ought to be Qualified” and “A Word of Advice to both Sexes in the Act of Copulation.” The information this title offered on conception, pregnancy, and childbirth wasn’t particularly innovative; many seventeenth century discoveries in gynecology are absent from the text and replaced by Hippocratic pathology, or by superstition. The “Aristotle” of the title was pseudonymous, and likely evoked by the book’s author to give the tome scientific credibility. The book’s true author is unknown, though Culpepper and William Salmon, an English physician and author, are sometimes credited.
- Subjects (LC)
- Abnormalities, Human, Conception, Early works to 1800, Gynecology, Medicine, Midwifery, Obstetrics, Reproduction, Sex instruction, Sexual behavior
- Title
- Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
- Description
- Trade card advertising Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, Lydia E. Pinkham's Liver Pills, Lydia E. Pinkham's Blood Purifier, and Lydia E. Pinkham's Sanative Wash featuring a square image of a sailboat and a steamboat. There is a crescent moon in the sky to to the left. The square image is framed by overlaid reeds, grasses, and a white flower. The back describes the ailments the items can cure.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Asthenia, Constipation, Depression, Headache, Indigestion, Insomnia, Neurasthenia
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Boats And Boating, Flowers, Nature, Ocean, Rocks, Sailboats, Steamboats, Water
- ID
- WH326
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Burdock Blood Bitters
- Description
- Trade card advertising Burdock Blood Bitters featuring a portrait of a woman in elegant dress with a red, feathered hat that is adorned with a large B pin of sorts on which is written Burdock Blood Bitters. She is wearing gold jewelry, including a choker with a B on it. Her dress is blue with lilies on it, and she has a small rose pinned to the front of her dress. The back has partially-obscured testimony from Burdock Blood Bitters users.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Asthenia, Headache, Indigestion
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Clothing And Dress, Feathers, Flowers, Gold Jewelry, Portraits, Women's Hats
- ID
- WH240
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Des aller furtrefflichsten, hoechsten und adelichsten Gschoepffs aller Creaturen
- Description
- Walther Hermann Ryff was a surgeon employed in Strassburg in the early 16th Century. One of the highlights of this text are the 42 hand-colored woodcuts in the text, compiled from a number of Renaissance sources. Depicted in the counterfeit style, the illustrations in this book would have implied eye witness knowledge and discovery. In this way, Ryff’s book asserted itself as a credible description of anatomy (though its illustrations were far from anatomically accurate). The text of this book relied on lectures in anatomy and physiology, compounded from other sources. His audience was the ‘gemeine,’ or common man, and its composition in German, rather than Latin, ensured it would have a wider audience. In this way, Ryff’s book would have been indispensable to new readers as a compilation of Renaissance knowledge about the body. The book also offers evidence about early printing history. The wood-blocks for this edition were reused for a set of broadsides before they were passed to a Parisian printer for new editions of Ryff’s work, and for a popular work on surgery. This illustrated the practice of passing wood-blocks from publisher to publisher, and shows how work published in one city continued to be published and disseminated in others
- Subjects (LC)
- Anatomy, Anthropometry, Early works to 1800, Medical illustration, Medicine, Printing—History, Proportion (Art), Renaissance, Wood-engraving
- Title
- Sapanule: Cures Neuralgia, Diptheria, Rheumatism &c.
- Description
- Trade card advertising Sapanule featuring a scene reminiscent of classical Chinese art. On the right side is a traditionally-dressed man with walking sticks and wooden sandals. In the left, bottom corner is a traditional Chinese fan. Beyond the man's head is a tree with creepy branches and scarce leaves. The back lists the ailments Sapanule can cure.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Diphtheria, Eczema, Erysipelas, Neuralgia, Pneumonia, Rheumatism, Salt Rheum
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, China, Clothing And Dress—Chinese Influences, Clouds, Ethnic Costume, Fans, Grasslands, Nature, Trees
- ID
- WH345
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Horsfords Acid Phosphate for Mental & Physical Exhaustion, Dyspepsia, &c.
- Description
- Trade card advertising Horsford's Acid Phosphate featuring a young girl looking desolately out into the distance. She is wearing a white garment and a white bonnet with a dark pink bow. She is resting her chin on her crossed forearms. Below her arms is text that reads "Our Pet." To the left is a compendium of flowers. The back lists the ailments Horsford's Acid Phospate cures.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Fatigue, Headache, Hysteria, Indigestion, Tuberculosis
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Baby Bonnets, Bows, Children, Children's Clothing, Dress And Clothing, Flowers, Portraits, Ribbons
- ID
- WH156
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Friendship is constant in all other things, save in the office and affairs of love ...
- Description
- Trade card advertising Dr. Jayne's Expectorant, Dr. Jayne's Liniment, Dr. Jayne's Sanative Pills, and Dr. Jayne's Tonic Vermifuge featuring a young girl leaning on a sign and a young boy who is seemingly courting her with a bunch of grapes. He is holding a blue box or book and is wearing an ornate hat with a long feather in it. She is wearing a flowing dress. Behind them is a tree with foliage. The back lists the ailments the advertised medicines cure.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Asthma, Bronchitis, Cold (Disease), Cough, Helminths, Indigestion, Pleurisy, Throat—Diseases, Tuberculosis, Whooping Cough
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Children, Children's Hats, Costume, Feathers, Gifts, Hats, Leaves, Trees
- ID
- WH286
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- 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
- WH112
- 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, Lydia E. Pinkham's Blood Purifier, and Lydia E. Pinkham's Sanative Wash featuring a coastal landscape of a house whose chimney is letting out smoke in the distance. A body of water is in the foreground, and there is a group of trees on the left-hand side. The image is framed by branches and pink and white blossoms. The back lists the benefits of the items advertised.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Asthenia, Backache, Depression, Headache, Indigestion, Insomnia, Neurasthenia, Peptic Ulcer, Tumors
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Chimneys, Flowers, Nature, Smoke Plumes, Trees, Water, Water And Architecture
- ID
- WH186
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Enfoncé! Plus de malades à soigner depuis que tout le monde prend 20 gouttes de véritable Fer Bravais avant chaque repas
- Description
- Trade card advertising Fer Bravais featuring a young girl wearing a pointed hat and apron with her arms outstretched, surrounded by a blue fleur de lis border. The back lists the ailments Fer Bravais can cure.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Chlorosis, Fatigue, Influenza, Typhoid Fever
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Clothing And Dress, Costume, Hats, Portraits, Women's Clothing, Women's Hats
- ID
- WH200
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards