Wheat Bitters

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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.

Details
Title

Wheat Bitters

Product Advertised

Wheat Bitters

Manufacturer

Wheat Bitters Company (New York (N.Y.))

Conditions Cured

Ague
Biliousness
Constipation
Delirium Tremens
Dyspepsia
Fever
Indigestion
Jaundice
Languor
Malaria
Neuralgia
Palsy
Paralysis

Subjects

Advertising—Medicine
Angels
Animals
Bottles
Carriages And Carts
Cherubs
Dogs
Folklore
Grasslands
Mythology
Stone Walls
Trees

Genre

Trade cards

Notes

Front of card reads: "A royal appetizer.—Health for the nation. Back of card is damaged."

Illustration Technique

Chromolithographs

Height (cm)

6.8

Width (cm)

12.3

Place

United States

Download

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Collection

William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

ID

WH196F

Repository

The New York Academy of Medicine