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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
- The Talking Well [from verso]
- Description
- Trade card advertising Dr. Jayne's Expectorant, Dr. Jayne's Sanative Pills, and Dr. Jayne's Tonic Vermifuge featuring a young lady reclining on the edge of a water pail that is attached to a well's pulley system. Behind her is a stone wall over which a young man is peering. They are both in formal dress. There is a castle in the background. The back lists the ailments the advertised medicines can cure.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Asthma, Cold (Disease), Cough, Helminths, Indigestion, Throats—Diseases
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Castles, Clothing And Dress, Costume, Ethnic Costume, Feathers, Grasses, Hair Ornaments, Hats, Leaves, Men's Hats, Nature, Pails, Stone Walls, Trees, Wells
- ID
- WH287
- 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
- Toll Gate No. 4 [from verso]
- Description
- Trade card advertising a book titled "The Sexual System and its Derangements" and the medicine Cutavaco featuring a landscape with various hidden images in it. The obvious things the picture presents are a man walking on a path with a dog; a bridge over water with a figure rowing a boat beneath it; a house at the entrance to the bridge with a figure leaning against its side; and a town on a mountain in the distance. The back praises the book being advertised and also lists the ailments Cutavaco can cure.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Acne, Bad Breath, Baldness, Bites And Stings, Catarrh, Cholera, Ear Infection, Eczema, Edema, Erythema, Helminths, Leucorrhea, Measles, Pediculosis, Poison Ivy, Ringworm, Salt Rheum, Scarlatina, Scars, Shingles (Disease), Smallpox, Throat—Diseases, Typhoid Fever, Urticaria
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Alligators, Animals, Birds, Bridges, Camels, Cows, Dogs, Flies, Geese, Goats, Horses, Housing, Insects, Monkeys, Nature, Peacocks, Rabbits, Rodents, Snails, Swans, Trails, Trees, Water
- ID
- WH252
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- The Truant Boys
- Description
- Trade card advertising a book titled "The Sexual System and its Derangements" and the medicine Cutavaco featuring a landscape with various hidden images in it. The obvious things the picture presents are a pair of sheep resting in a fenced-off field surrounded by boulders and trees. There are more fences and fields in the distance, as well as a small hill. The back praises the book being advertised and also lists the ailments Cutavaco can cure.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Acne, Bad Breath, Baldness, Bites And Stings, Catarrh, Cholera, Ear Infection, Eczema, Edema, Erythema, Helminths, Leucorrhea, Measles, Pediculosis, Poison Ivy, Ringworm, Salt Rheum, Scarlatina, Scars, Shingles (Disease), Smallpox, Throat—Diseases, Typhoid Fever, Urticaria
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Animals, Grasslands, Nature, Rocks, Sheep, Trees, Wooden Fences
- ID
- WH253
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards