Wheat Bitters

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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.

Details
Title

Wheat Bitters

Product Advertised

Wheat Bitters

Manufacturer

Wheat Bitters Company (New York (N.Y.))

Conditions Cured

Ague
Fever
Malaria

Subjects

Advertising—Medicine
Bottles
Costume
Domestic Scenes

Genre

Trade cards

Notes

Front of card reads: "Take it.--Thy aches and ills shall vanish! Back of card notes that Wheat Bitters was made under the personal supervision of Prof. N. F. Rider, Graduate of 'The Massachusetts College of Pharmacy'..."

Illustration Technique

Chromolithographs

Height (cm)

6.9

Width (cm)

12.6

Place

United States

Download

JPEG

Collection

William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

ID

WH195F

Repository

The New York Academy of Medicine