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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: Greek Church
Description: A Greek Orthodox church in Agios Georgios, Cyprus.
Subjects (LC): architecture, building, church, orthodox, religion, traditional, water
Geographic Subject: greece, cyprus, mediterranean, sea

Title: Rogers & Lyon, Dispensing Chemists [from verso]
Description: Trade card advertising chemists Rogers & Lyon featuring an image of two sailboats in a choppy sea. This image is on top of an ethereal scene of flowers and reeds. The back boasts of Rogers & Lyons's large seasonsal stock of drugs.
Subjects (LC): Advertising, Boats And Boating, Cliffs, Flowers, Grasses, Nature, Sailboats, Water, Water Waves
ID: WH215
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Nearly 50 Years the Favorite: Piso's Cure a Medicine for Coughs Colds Etc.
Description: Trade card advertising Piso's Cure featuring a scene of two men constructing or deconstructing a wooden dock on the Allegheny River. A red-wheeled wheelbarrow on the bank holds wooden planks. There is an island in river that has a red-and-white house. There are forested hills on the farther shorelines. The back is a blank template for a postcard.
Conditions Cured (LC): Cold (Disease), Cough
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Carpenters, Carts And Carriages, Hats, Housing, Islands, Marshes, Nature, Trees, Water, Woodworkers
ID: WH329
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

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