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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 testimony from satisfied users.
Conditions Cured (LC): Asthma, Catarrh, Cold (Disease), Croup, Hemorrhoids, Rheumatism
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Clothing And Dress, Feathers, Flowers, Gold Jewelry, Portraits, Women's Hats
ID: WH241
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: We Always Keep in Our Drug Store a Supply of Boschee's German Syrup & Green's August Flower [from verso]
Description: Trade card advertising Boschee's German Syrup and Green's August Flower featuring a space in which there is some writing. This space is surrounded by various blue, red, and pink flowers. The back lists the ailments the Syrup and the Flower can cure.
Conditions Cured (LC): Asthma, Bronchitis, Cold (Disease), Constipation, Cough, Croup, Headache, Heartburn, Indigestion, Palpitation, Tuberculosis
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Bouquets, Flowers
ID: WH231
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: Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil: Mary Anderson
Description: Trade card advertising Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil featuring a portrait of a young woman. She is formally dressed in a gown with long gloves. She is wearing a hat that reads: "Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil" and has a feather in it. The back lists the ailments the Oil has cured.
Conditions Cured (LC): Asthma, Backache, Bronchitis, Burns And Scalds, Catarrh, Cough, Croup, Deafness, Diphtheria, Earache, Edema, Frostbite, Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Throat—Diseases, Toothache
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Clothing And Dress, Costume, Ethnic Costume, Hats, Portraits, Women
ID: WH366
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: We Always Keep in Our Drug Store a Supply of Boschee's German Syrup & Green's August Flower [from verso]
Description: Trade card advertising Boschee's German Syrup and Green's August Flower featuring a blank space where one might presumably write an address. It is surrounded by some red roses. The back lists the ailments the Syrup and the Flower can cure.
Conditions Cured (LC): Asthma, Bronchitis, Cold (Disease), Constipation, Cough, Croup, Headache, Heartburn, Indigestion, Palpitation, Tuberculosis
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Bouquets, Flowers, Roses
ID: WH230
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil
Description: Trade card advertising Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil featuring a Russian flag. The flag is yellow and contains a symmetrical image of a brown eagle wearing a red crown and holding one scroll in its beak and one scroll in its talon. The back lists the times it takes Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil to cure various ailments.
Conditions Cured (LC): Backache, Burns And Scalds, Cold (Disease), Cough, Croup, Deafness, Earache, Throat—Diseases, Toothache
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Flags, Russia
ID: WH181
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Ayer's Cherry Pectoral
Description: Trade card advertising Ayer's Cherry Pectoral featuring an image of flowers with a card advertising Ayer's Cherry Pectoral.
Conditions Cured (LC): Asthma, Bronchitis, Cold (Disease), Cough, Croup, Influenza, Throat—Diseases
Subjects (LC): Daisies, Flowers, Roses
ID: WH115
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

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