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- Title
- Dr. Grosvenor's Liveraid, Cures All Diseases of the Stomach Liver & Blood
- Description
- Trade card advertising Dr. Grosvenor's Liveraid and Bellanodyne featuring a sign that reads: "Dr. Grosvenor's Liveraid, cures all diseases of the stomach, liver, & blood. Small doses, prompt effect." The sign has a bouquet of flowers inserted in it. In the foreground is a body of water with two frogs and three ducks. The back is obscured, but lists the ailments the Liveraid cures and mentions a pain-relieving plaster called Bellanodyne.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Biliary Tract-Diseases, Constipation, Headache, Indigestion, Malaria, Rheumatism
- Subjects (LC)
- Acquatic Animals, Advertising—Medicine, Amphibians, Animals, Ducks, Flowers, Frogs, Grasslands, Nature, Trees, Water, Water Lilies
- ID
- WH270
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Dr. Grosvenor's Liveraid, Cures All Diseases of the Stomach Liver & Blood
- Description
- Trade card advertising Dr. Grosvenor's Liveraid and Bellanodyne featuring a sign that reads: "Dr. Grosvenor's Liveraid, cures all diseases of the stomach, liver, & blood. Small doses, prompt effect." The sign has a bouquet of flowers inserted in it. In the foreground is a body of water with two frogs and three ducks. The back lists the ailments the Liveraid cures and mentions a pain-relieving plaster called Bellanodyne.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Biliary Tract-Diseases, Constipation, Headache, Indigestion, Malaria, Rheumatism
- Subjects (LC)
- Acquatic Animals, Advertising—Medicine, Amphibians, Animals, Ducks, Flowers, Frogs, Grasslands, Nature, Trees, Water, Water Lilies
- ID
- WH269
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Wheat Bitters
- Description
- Trade card advertising What Bitters featuring an image of a naked angel driving a cart with a large bottle of Wheat Bitters on it. The cart is pulled by two dogs, and two more naked angels run behind it. The back lists the curative properties of Wheat Bitters.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Biliary Tract—Diseases, Constipation, Delirium Tremens, Fever, Indigestion, Jaundice, Malaria, Neuralgia, Paralysis
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Angels, Animals, Bottles, Carriages And Carts, Cherubs, Dogs, Folklore, Grasslands, Mythology, Stone Walls, Trees
- ID
- WH196
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Brown's Iron Bitters the Best Tonic Cures Malaria, Dyspepsia & Female Infirmities
- Description
- Trade card advertising Brown's Iron Bitters featuring a framed portrait of a woman's head. The glass of the frame is broken, revealing the woman's nose and mouth. She has brown hair that is in an updo and is wearing a brown dress and gold, hooped earrings. The back describes the disease malaria and how the Iron Bitters can help cure it.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Indigestion, Malaria
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Bows, Earrings, Glass, Gold Jewelry, Hair Ornaments, Picture Frames And Framing, Portrait Frames, Portraits, Ribbons, Women
- ID
- WH238
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Wheat Bitters
- Description
- 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.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Fever, Malaria
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Bottles, Costume, Domestic Scenes
- ID
- WH195
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Ayer's Ague Cure Is Warranted to Cure All Malarial Disorders
- Description
- Trade card advertising Ayer's Ague Cure featuring a landscape image of a tropical place containing trees and foliage, a log cabin, two people and a heron-looking bird on the shore, and a person in a row boat. In the bottom right is a magnified view of an alligator or crocodile seemingly conversing with two frogs, one of which is holding a bottle and the other one of which is leaning on a box with the writing Ayer's Ague Cure on it. The back has an image of a bottle labeled Ayer's Ague Cure that is upright on a lilly pad with a frog standing on its back legs while touching the bottle with its front legs. The text lists the ailments Ayer's Ague Cure treats.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Biliary Tract—Diseases, Fever, Malaria, Typhoid Fever
- Subjects (LC)
- Acquatic Reptiles, Advertising—Medicine, Alligators, Amphibians, Animals—Caricatures And Cartoons, Aquatic Animals, Birds, Boats And Boating, Bog Animals, Bottles, Crocodiles, Frogs, Herons, Jungles, Log Cabins, Nature, Swamps, Trees
- ID
- WH124
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- In every Home much sickness and suffering can be prevented by the discreet use of Parker's Ginger Tonic
- Description
- Trade card advertising Parker's Hair Balsam, Parker's Ginger Tonic, and Hindercorns featuring two young children. The girl, on the left-hand side of the card is looking at the customer with her hands around the back of her neck. She is wearing a red-and-white top of some sort. The boy, on the right-hand side of the card is in profile and is wearing a golden wreath of laurels. The back lists the benefits of each item advertised and contains customer testimony.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Acne, Asthma, Body Fluids, Bronchitis, Bunion, Cold (Disease), Corns, Dandruff, Diarrhea, Headache, Indigestion, Insomnia, Itching, Malaria, Rheumatism, Warts
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Children, Wreaths
- ID
- WH317
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Dr. Morses Compound Syrup of Yellow Dock Root the Great Blood Purifier
- Description
- Trade card advertising Dr. Morse's Compound Syrup of Yellow Dock Root featuring a young boy riding a toy horse's saddle. He is wearing traditional horse-riding garb with a riding crop in his right hand.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Biliary Tract—Diseases, Constipation, Malaria
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Baby Bonnets, Children, Children's Clothing, Dress And Clothing, Hats, Horses, Toys
- ID
- WH175
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards