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- Title
- The Morse Indian Root Pills
- Description
- Trade card advertising Morse's Indian Root Pills featuring text explaining why potential customers should take them. The back is blank save for linear designs on the top and bottom.
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine
- ID
- WH305
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- An Abstract of the Patent Granted by His Majesty King George…
- Description
- Patent medicines originated in England in the mid 17th century and were marketed with extravagant claims, offering cures for a host of maladies. Recommendations for dosage were vague, and ingredients (often including opium) were usually not specified. In 1726 Benjamin Okell was granted the royal patent for Dr. Bateman’s Pectoral Drops, a tincture of gambir (an astringent extract from an Asian plant) and opium. Advertisements published in the London Mercury as early as 1721 directed prospective customers to the warehouse and printing shop at Bow's Churchyard, where they could purchase the drops for one shilling. Our copy of the 1731 reprint by Peter Zenger is likely the first piece of medical printing in New York. Zenger, who would later become famous for printing seditious texts, was instrumental in establishing freedom of the press in America. The Academy has the only known copy. Bound with our copy of the abstract is a copy of A Short treatise of the virtues of Dr. Bateman's Pectoral Drops, also issued by Okell and his printing house partners. Here, Batemans efficacy as a treatment for numerous ailments are described in sections dedicated to each. The last section of the treatise offers testimonials from satisfied customers.
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Early works to 1800, Fever, Medicine, Patent medicines, Rheumatism
- 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
- Boyd's Miniature Galvanic Battery, For the effectual cure of nearly all diseases [from verso]
- Description
- Trade card advertising Boyd's Miniature Galvanic Battery featuring a blank card where one might presumably write an address. Tucked into the card is a bouquet of small, blue-and-pink flowers with one, larger red flower. The back details how to get more illuminated cards by purchasing Boyd's products.
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Bouquets, Flowers
- ID
- WH232
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Morse's Yellow Dock the Great Blood Purifier and Kidney Remedy
- Description
- Trade card advertising Morse's Yellow Dock featuring a kitten's head turned to the right. The kitten is brown and white. The back has a dataset for countries around the world.
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Animals, Cats
- ID
- WH310
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Who Said Hood's Sarsaparilla?
- Description
- Trade card advertising Hood's Sarsaparilla featuring three babies in white frocks crawling towards the customer. A quote on the bottom reads "Who said Hood's Sarsaparilla?" The back explains the benefits and curative properties of Hood's Sarsaparilla.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Body Fluids, Headache, Salt Rheum, Scrofula
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Babies, Portraits
- ID
- WH151
- 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
- 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. Naylor Products
- Description
- Trade card advertising Dr. Naylor Products featuring two black-and-white images of various products, one in the top, left corner, and one in the bottom, right corner.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Blisters, Diarrhea, Indigestion, Lungs—Congestion, Pediculosis, Thrush (Mouth Disease), Wounds And Injuries
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Bottles, Containers
- ID
- WH314
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Dr. Naylor Products
- Description
- Trade card advertising Dr. Naylor Products featuring two black-and-white images of various products, one in the top, left corner, and one in the bottom, right corner.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Blisters, Diarrhea, Indigestion, Lungs—Congestion, Pediculosis, Thrush (Mouth Disease), Wounds And Injuries
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Bottles, Containers
- ID
- WH315
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Increase Your Resistance with Wampole's Preparation: Tonic and Stimulant for Young and Old
- Description
- Trade card advertising Wampole's Preparation featuring three charts with average weights on them as well as a box and bottle of Preparation. Behind the latter two is an illustration of wintry elements that reads: "Wind. Rain. Sleet. Snow." These elements are anthropomorphized above a group of people.
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Bottles, Weather
- ID
- WH373
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Wampole's Preparation: Tonic and Stimulant
- Description
- Trade card advertising Wampole's Preparation featuring a selection of eight birds. In the middle is a box and a bottle of Wampole's Preparation. The card's border is a ruler.
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Bottles, Weather
- ID
- WH374
- 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
- Hood's Sarsaparilla
- Description
- Trade card advertising Hood's Sarsaparilla featuring the face of a young woman bursting through a newspaper titled "Hood's Latest." She has rosy cheeks and short, curly hair. The back outlines Hood's Sarsaparilla's ingredients and curative properties. The back also contains quotes from satisfied customers.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Bad Breath, Biliary Tract—Diseases, Body Fluids, Catarrh, Headache, Indigestion, Rheumatism, Salt Rheum, Scrofula
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Newspaper Layout And Typography
- ID
- WH141
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Morse's Yellow Dock the Great Blood Purifier and Kidney Remedy
- Description
- Trade card advertising Morse's Yellow Dock featuring a kitten's head turned to the right. Around its neck is a blue bow with some red in it. The back has a dataset for countries around the world.
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Animals, Bows, Cats
- ID
- WH309
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Dr. Morse's Compound Syrup of Yellow Dock Root
- Description
- Trade card advertising Dr. Morse's Compound Syrup of Yellow Dock Root featuring a bouquet of red, pink, and blue flowers with some greenery.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Biliary Tract—Diseases, Body Fluids, Constipation, Headache, Hemorrhoids, Indigestion
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Bouquets, Flowers, Roses
- ID
- WH312
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Here biginneth the inventorie or the collectorye in cirurgicale parte of medicene compiled and complete in the yere of oure Lord
- Description
- An illuminated and illustrated manuscript of the Chirurgia magna, or great surgery, by Guy de Chauliac. Attempting in the Chirurgia to collect the best medical ideas of his time, he compiled sources from Arabic and Greek writers, including Rhazes, Avicenna, Hippocrates, Aristotle and others. Guy wrote the first text of the Chirurgia in Latin at Montpellier, in approximately 1363. This text was published in many editions and remained the authoritative text on surgery through the seventeenth century. It consists of 181 pages of English black letter in double columns and lines lightly ruled in red. It is ornately illuminated in gold and silver with finely decorated floral borders and large floriated initials, heightened with gold leaf. The manuscript includes 24 drawings of surgical instruments. The calf binding dates to Henry VIII’s reign or to the Elizabethan era. The original brass and leather clasps are engraved with stars and lion heads. There has been dispute about the manuscript’s date, with authorities dating it between the late 14th and second half of the 15th century. The manuscript was sold with the Streeter collection to the New York Academy of Medicine in 1928.
- Subjects (LC)
- Early works to 1800, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Manuscripts, Medical illustration, Medicine, Medicine—History, Medicine, Medieval, Surgery—History, Surgical instruments and apparatus
- 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
- Compliments of John S. Shaffer & Co., Druggists, Dealers in Dr. C. McLean's Liver Pills and Vermifuge
- Description
- Trade card advertising Dr. C. McLane's Liver Pills and Vermifuge featuring a bunch of pansies tied together with a red string. The back contains a customer testimony.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Helminths
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Bouquets, Bows, Flowers, Pansies, Ribbons
- ID
- WH297
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Compliments of H. D. Thatcher & Co. Wholesale Druggists
- Description
- Trade card advertising Dr. C. McLane's Liver Pills and Vermifuge featuring a bunch of pansies tied together with a red string. The back is obscured, but contains a customer testimony.
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Bouquets, Bows, Flowers, Pansies, Ribbons
- ID
- WH296
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards