Parker's Ginger Tonic

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Trade card advertising Parker's Hair Balsam and Parker's Ginger Tonic featuring a formally-dressed man sitting in an armchair defending himself against devilish creatures with an oversized box of Parker's Ginger Tonic. On the creatures' wings are written various ailments the Tonic cures. There is a broken crutch by the man's feet. The back describes the ailments the Balsam and the Tonic cure.

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Title

Parker's Ginger Tonic

Product Advertised

Parker's Hair Balsam
Parker's Ginger Tonic

Manufacturer

Hiscox & Co. (New York (N.Y.))

Conditions Cured

Colds
Colic
Consumption
Coughs
Cramps
Dandruff
Diarrhoea
Dyspepsia
Heartburn
Humors
Itching
Nervousness
Neuralgia
Rheumatism

Subjects

Advertising—Medicine
Clothing And Dress
Costume
Crutches
Demonology
Devil
Domestic Space
Folklore
Men
Mythology

Genre

Trade cards

Notes

Front of card reads: "Parker's Ginger Tonic. Cramps. Colic. Dyspepsia. Coughs. Diarrhoea. Heartburn. Rheumatism..." Front of card has a note: "This Card Is Perfumed Same As Parker's Hair Balsam, with a Not Perfumed red stamp partially obscuring it." Back of card has handwriting on it, part of which reads: "Hiscox & Co."

Illustration Technique

Chromolithographs

Height (cm)

7.9

Width (cm)

11.6

Place

United States

Download

JPEG

Collection

William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

ID

WH318F

Repository

The New York Academy of Medicine