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[Introduction]
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Description
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The Dutch West India Company occupied northeastern Brazil from 1624 to 1654. In 1638, the physician Willem Piso and astronomer Georg Markgraf arrived as part of Johann Maurits’ research staff, tasked with promoting scientific studies in Brazil. This is the Introduction to their collaborative illustrated folio volume, which spanned 12 books and was published in 1648. Rich in description of native life, the book contains 446 woodcuts illustrating local flora and fauna, and comprises the most important early documentation of zoology, botany and medicine in Brazil.
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Subjects (LC)
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Botanical illustration, Early works to 1800, Indians of Central America, Indigenous crops, Indigenous peoples—Ecology, Natural history—Brazil, Natural history illustration, Medical geography, Medicine, Zoological illustration, Zoology—Brazil, Zoology—Pre-Linnean works, Wood-engraving
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Yours for Health Lydia E. Pinkham
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Description
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Trade card advertising Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Lydia E. Pinkham's Liver Pills featuring the portrait of an elderly woman gazing into the distance towards the left-hand side of the card. She has a lace shawl pinned around her shoulders and neck. The back lists the ailments the items can cure.
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Conditions Cured (LC)
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Asthenia, Backache, Biliary Tract—Diseases, Constipation, Depression, Headache, Indigestion, Insomnia, Neurasthenia, Peptic Ulcer, Tumors
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Subjects (LC)
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Advertising—Medicine, Brooches, Clothing And Dress, Lace And Lacemaking, Portraits, Shawls
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ID
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WH188
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Collection
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William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
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Title
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Your Cough or Cold can be Cured by Using Hartshorn's Cough Balsam
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Description
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Trade card advertising Hartshorn's Cough Balsam featuring an image of a tree with songbirds. In the background there is a body of water with a house on the shore. The back outlines why Hartshorn's Cough Balsam has gained popularity in the past, the ailments it cures, and the price.
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Conditions Cured (LC)
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Bronchitis, Cold (Disease), Cough, Influenza, Lungs—Congestion, Pneumonia, Whooping Cough
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Subjects (LC)
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Advertising—Medicine, Birds, Carriage Houses, Nature, Trees, Water And Architecture
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WH137
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Collection
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William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
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Title
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Words of Comfort [from verso]
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Description
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Trade card advertising Dr. Jayne's Expectorant and Dr. Jayne's Tonic Vermifuge featuring three women and one man sitting around a table. The man is reading a book and is in formal dress and wearing eyeglasses. The three women seem interested in and puzzled by what he is reading. There is a vase on the table, and the backdrop seems to resemble some sort of living room or study area. The back lists the benefits of the Expectorant and the Tonic Vermifuge.
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Conditions Cured (LC)
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Bad Breath, Cold (Disease), Cough, Fever, Headache, Helminths, Indigestion
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Advertising—Medicine, Books, Costume, Domestic Space, Dress And Clothing, Dwellings, Ethnic Costume, Eyeglasses, Families, Men, Men's Clothing, Women, Women's Clothing, Women's Hats
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WH159
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Collection
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William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
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Title
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Words of Comfort [from verso]
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Description
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Trade card advertising Dr. Jayne's Expectorant and Dr. Jayne's Tonic Vermifuge featuring three women and one man sitting around a table. The man is reading a book and is in formal dress and wearing eyeglasses. The three women seem interested in and puzzled by what he is reading. There is a vase on the table, and the backdrop seems to resemble some sort of living room or study area. The back lists the benefits of the Expectorant and the Tonic Vermifuge.
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Conditions Cured (LC)
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Bad Breath, Cold (Disease), Cough, Fever, Headache, Helminths, Indigestion
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Subjects (LC)
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Advertising—Medicine, Books, Costume, Domestic Space, Dress And Clothing, Dwellings, Ethnic Costume, Eyeglasses, Families, Men, Men's Clothing, Women, Women's Clothing, Women's Hats
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WH160
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Collection
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William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
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Title
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Wheat Bitters
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Description
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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.
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Conditions Cured (LC)
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Biliary Tract—Diseases, Constipation, Delirium Tremens, Fever, Indigestion, Jaundice, Malaria, Neuralgia, Paralysis
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Advertising—Medicine, Angels, Animals, Bottles, Carriages And Carts, Cherubs, Dogs, Folklore, Grasslands, Mythology, Stone Walls, Trees
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WH196
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Collection
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William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
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Title
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We Always Keep in Our Drug Store a Supply of Boschee's German Syrup & Green's August Flower [from verso]
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Description
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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.
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Conditions Cured (LC)
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Asthma, Bronchitis, Cold (Disease), Constipation, Cough, Croup, Headache, Heartburn, Indigestion, Palpitation, Tuberculosis
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Subjects (LC)
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Advertising—Medicine, Bouquets, Flowers
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WH231
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Collection
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William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
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We Always Keep in Our Drug Store a Supply of Boschee's German Syrup & Green's August Flower [from verso]
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Description
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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.
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Conditions Cured (LC)
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Asthma, Bronchitis, Cold (Disease), Constipation, Cough, Croup, Headache, Heartburn, Indigestion, Palpitation, Tuberculosis
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Subjects (LC)
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Advertising—Medicine, Bouquets, Flowers, Roses
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WH230
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Collection
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William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
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Title
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Vegetine: The Great Blood Purifier
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Description
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Trade card advertisng Vegetine featuring a young woman leaning over a wooden fence. Her arms are crossed in front of her, and she is holding a glass bottle of Vegetine in her left hand. Behind her is a tree with white flowers. The back describes the ailments Vegetine can cure.
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Conditions Cured (LC)
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Acne, Body Fluids, Furuncle, Peptic Ulcer, Ringworm, Salt Rheum
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Subjects (LC)
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Advertising—Medicine, Bottles, Flowers, Nature, Portraits, Trees, Wooden Fences
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WH370
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Collection
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William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
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Vaseline Chesebrough Manfg Co.
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Description
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Trade card primarily advertising Pure Vaseline featuring a beach scene with two children playing in the foreground. They are both wearing yellow hats and playing in the sand with shovels and a single pail. Behind them stands a woman with a parasol. She is in formal dress, with an overcoat, ruffled skirt, and yellow bow on her hip. There are various people on the beach and in the ocean as well is what looks like a cruise ship in the far background. The back contains a poem titled The Elixir Vitae and lists prices for various vaseline products.
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Conditions Cured (LC)
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Asthma, Burns And Scalds, Cold (Disease), Croup, Neuralgia, Rheumatism
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Subjects (LC)
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Advertising—Medicine, Beaches, Boats And Boating, Bows, Children, Children's Hats, Clothing And Dress, Crabs, Hats, Parasols, Ribbons, Sand Pails, Sand Toys, Shovels, Water, Water Waves, Women's Hats
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WH369
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Collection
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William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
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Use W. & S. Cough Drops
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Description
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Trade card advertising W. & S. Cough Drops featuring a young girl walking on a path holding a bouquet of red and white flowers. She is wearing white-and-pink dress and a white bonnet. On either side of the walkway is grass.
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Advertising—Medicine, Bouquets, Clothing And Dress, Flowers, Grasses, Hair Ornamentation, Hats, Nature, Portraits, Trails, Women, Women's Hats
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WH384
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Collection
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William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
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Toll Gate No. 4 [from verso]
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Description
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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.
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Conditions Cured (LC)
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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
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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
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WH252
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Collection
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William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
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This is all right, Hood's Sarsaparilla Can't Fool me twice
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Description
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Trade card advertising Hood's Sarsaparilla featuring an elderly man outside a pharmacy looking at a box of Hood's Sarsaparilla. He is wearing a yellow jacket and holding a red umbrella under his left arm. Behind him are buildings and a fountain. The back is an advertisement for a concert as well as a description of the ailments Hood's Sarsaparilla can cure.
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Conditions Cured (LC)
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Headache, Indigestion
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Subjects (LC)
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Advertising—Medicine, Animals, Clothing And Dress, Drugstores, Fountains, Hats, Men, Men's Hats, Owls, Portraits, Umbrellas, Water
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WH388
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Collection
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William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
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This is all right, Hood's Sarsaparilla Can't Fool me twice
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Description
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Trade card advertising Hood's Sarsaparilla featuring an elderly man outside a pharmacy looking at a box of Hood's Sarsaparilla. He is wearing a yellow jacket and holding a red umbrella under his left arm. Behind him are buildings and a fountain. The back is an advertisement for a concert as well as a description of the ailments Hood's Sarsaparilla can cure.
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Conditions Cured (LC)
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Headache, Indigestion
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Subjects (LC)
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Advertising—Medicine, Animals, Clothing And Dress, Drugstores, Fountains, Hats, Men, Men's Hats, Owls, Portraits, Umbrellas, Water
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WH389
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Collection
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William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
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This Brief Notice May Save Long Illness, Suffering, and Expense, and Even Life Itself! [from verso]
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Description
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Trade card advertising Hartshorn's Sarsaparilla and Iron and Hartshorn's Flavoring Extracts featuring a wintry landscape with a castle. There is a bouquet on the left with white, red, and blue flowers and a snow-covered branch with pink-blue-white-and-yellow birds flying around its branches. There is a bridge over a small body of water in the lower, right corner. The back describes the curative properties of the products advertised.
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Conditions Cured (LC)
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Body Fluids
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Advertising—Medicine, Birds, Bridges, Castles, Crosses—Cult, Daisies, Flowers, Holy Cross, Mansions, Nature, Roses, Snow, Trees, Water And Architecture, Winter, Winter
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WH392
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Collection
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William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
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This Brief Notice May Save Long Illness, Suffering, and Expense, and Even Life Itself! [from verso]
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Description
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Trade card advertising Hartshorn's Sarsaparilla and Iron, featuring an image of a castle surrounded by a snowy landscape with trees, a small river, and a bridge. On the left, this image is framed with a bouquet of flowers. On the right, it is framed with snowy branch and flying songbirds. The back lists the benefits of taking Hartshorn's Sarsaparilla and Iron, and the price.
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Advertising—Medicine, Birds, Bridges, Castles, Crosses—Cult, Daisies, Flowers, Holy Cross, Mansions, Nature, Roses, Snow, Trees, Water And Architecture, Winter, Winter
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WH138
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Collection
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William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
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Title
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The byrth of Mankynde newly translated out of Laten into Englyshe
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Description
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The Byrth of Mankynde, published in 1540, is the oldest manual for midwives printed in the English language. It remained in use both as a guidebook for midwives and as a source for physicians in the practice of obstetrics throughout Europe for the next two hundred years. The 1540 Byrth was a translation from the Latin edition of De Partu Hominis of Eucharius Rösslin’s Rosengarten. Rösslin was charged with supervising the midwives of Frankfurt, and although this volume contains sound instruction on delivery procedures, it did not break new ground in the field of obstetrics. Instead, it makes available the teachings of the Roman physician Soranus, popularized by Moschion, author of a 6th century question – and –answer book for Roman midwives. Other influences include Galen, Hippocrates, Aetius, Magnus and others. The volume’s seventeen copper-engraved plates were among the first in England to be produced by a roller press. The first illustrates “the Womans Stwle,” or birth chair, a birth aid which had been in use at least since Soranus’ time. Sixteen additional plates depict “Byrth Figures” in various positions in utero. The babies in these images, who resemble children age three or four and not fetuses, float dreamily in light-bulb-shaped vessels.
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Cosack & Co. (Buffalo (N.Y.)) (4)
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L. Sunderland Lith. (Providence (R.I.)) (4)
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