Medicine
Graphic Design, Medication, Social and Cultural History
Japan: 1920s-1930s. This group of 14 vividly illustrated medicine packets designed for the Japanese market. Besides the printed product information,the imagery is often relevant to the ailment depicting coughing, holding an aching head or tooth or a demon taking hold of or seizing the body. The little packet with a......
Price: $350.00
medical, historical memorabilia
An 18 pp pamphlet with paper wraps. An address to the Gentleman of the Graduating Class, November 4, 1869. In 1858 California surgeon Elias Samuel Cooper organized the Medical Department of the University of the Pacific with a board of trustees consisting of ten clergymen and three physicians. The first.....
Price: $175.00
WWI,American Nurses Abroad,Le Bien-Être du Blessé,Franco-American Volunteer Nurse Organizations
France: 1919. A group of four (4) letters from the Franco-American organization Le Bien-Être du Blessé addressed to Ann Cléophas Mullarkey, an American nurse who served in France during the war and assisted the organization in the war's immediate aftermath. From the letters we glean that Mullarkey was awarded a......
Price: $175.00
Incubator Babies,Sideshow Attractions
San Francisco, California: Golden Gate International Exposition, 1939. Original printed souvenir day pass ticket to the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition, held on San Francisco's Treasure Island between February 1939 and September 1940. This example is notable for its promotion of the "Incubator Babies" sideshow. The attraction was exactly what.....
Price: $75.00
Military Service,Recruitment,Women in the Military
N.pl: U.S. Army and Air Force Medical Services, 1950. An expansive information packet for recruitment officers, published by the U.S. Army and Air Force Medical Services. Offers information on the following corps: Medical Corps; Medical Service Corps; Dental Corps; Veterinary Corps; Nurse Corps; and Women's Medical Specialist Corps. The packet.....
Price: $300.00
Children's Dental Health,Health Education
[New York]: N.p, 1951. Photo-illustrated poster produced for New York State Children's Dental Health Week in 1951, featuring a large photo of a little boy smiling and proudly holding his toothbrush up for the camera. The caption reads: "I Want To Make My Mark!!! with the sparkle of healthy and.....
Price: $150.00
medicine, patent medicine, advertising, illustration art, Leonetto Cappiell
Paris: Le Thermogene, c1900. A collection of three items (in French) advertising 'Le Thermogene' a patent medicine product that was meant to help with a variety of ailments such as coughing, bronchitis, flue, sore throat, colds, joint pains, and rheumatism. The product was a heating pad that was composed of.....
Price: $150.00
Medicine,Patent Medicine,Panaceas
New York, New York: A.L. Scovill & Co., 1877. Lithographed bill of medicine filled out in ink manuscript, detailing the sale of medicines to a Mr. E.A. Brown. Lists over a dozen of Scovill's most popular medicines, ranging from "Dr. Baker's Pan Panacea" to "Prof. Dale's Persian Horse and Cattle.....
Price: $150.00
Health and wellness, herbalism, treatments and cures, constipation, Exoticism, Imperialism, Stereotypes
Washington, D.C. Alonzo O. Bliss Medical Co., 1930s. A printed 6.25" by 7.75" advertisement for the laxative Bliss Native Herbs, giving the reader directions for use, prices, and information about the medicine's ingredients, highlighting the "Native"/exotic marketing theme: "Some of the ingredients of Bliss Native Herbs are imported from various.....
Price: $100.00
Patent medicines, Quack medicines
New York: M.J. Breitenbach Co., c.1900. Advertising booklet for an iron- and manganese-based patent medicine, Gude's Pepto-Mangan, beginning with sweeping statements about the history of medicine: "Ever since the art of medicine emerged from its chrysalis stage of mysticism, mummery and moonshine, iron in some form has been administered .......
Price: $125.00
Animals in Marketing, Patent Medicine, Guaranteed Cures and Panaceas
Springfield, Missouri: [Frank W. Diemer, M.D], 1880s? Illustrated advertising card for "Dr. Diemer's Prescription for the Cure of Men and Women", with a cockfighting motif on the front. Pricing on verso along with claims of the product being a "guaranteed cure" for all diseases. Chromolithographed card measures 2.5" by 3.75".....
Price: $150.00
Medicines, advertisements, health and wellness, women's health
New York: New York and London Drug Co., 1920s. Advertising flyer (10.25" by 7.25") for over twenty pills, syrups, creams and medicines sold under the brand Nyal's Family Remedies. The medicines claim to treat or cure a variety of afflictions including kidney and liver diseases, dyspepsia, constipation, dandruff, and even.....
Price: $150.00
Glyco-Thymoline, quack medicine, remedy
A single-fold 6 ¼” x 3” flyer for Glyco-Thymoline, an alkaline antiseptic for the efficient treatment of inflammatory conditions of mucous membrane in all parts of the body, by Kress & Wren Company. 316-363 Pearl Street, New York. The front cover is an image from a photograph of an Edwardian.....
Price: $85.00
advertising, medicine, pharmacist, music, song card
Bridgeport, OH: H. E. Wells & Co., [1885]. An advertising card for H. E. Wells & Co., a family druggist from Bridgeport, OH. Based on the brief description on the card, it appears as though Wells sold remedies for both humans and farm animals, like horses and cattle. On the.....
Price: $100.00
antacid, advertisement, health & welfare, medicine
Toronto, Canada: Carter, Cummings, & Co., c1920. An advertisement for Al-Caroid, which was an antacid containing the vegetable digestive ferment caroid. One side of the ad has a color illustration depicting the antacid being mixed into a class of water, with the caption "flavor unusually pleasing, no sickly alkaline taste".....
Price: $125.00
Cancer,Chemotherapy,Scientific and Medical Research
Kansas City, Missouri: Lynch & Company, c.1980. An early analysis of a new kind of chemotherapy, "Neo-Merphenol", promoted by Lynch & Company as "A comparatively new, safe, and efficient weapon" that may be used by physicians "to help them in their great humanitarian warfare against disease, suffering, and death" (p.....
Price: $110.00
Appendicitis,Public Health
Ottawa, Canada: The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, 1950s. A brief, no-nonsense public health pamphlet devoted to appendicitis, educating the general public about what the affliction is and how to address it. Discourages the reader from seeking home remedies, and the importance of qualified medical care. Published by the Canadian branch.....
Price: $150.00
Physiology,Medical Education
New York, New York: American Book Company, [1897]. Illustrated prospectus for an upcoming 1897 book on advanced physiology, including sample diagrams and illustrations, a chapter list, and a brief description of scope and content. Also includes a brief physical description: "Cloth, 12mo, 432 pages, with numerous Diagrams and Illustrations". Diagrams.....
Price: $250.00
Clever Design,Marketing Medicine
Paris, France: Laboratories A. Bailly, c.1952. French advertising circular for "Arthrex Bailly" brand medication, featuring a cleverly designed illustration of an ill man in a leg cast, in the style of a neon sign. Claims to treat or cure gout, lumbago, sciatica, neuralgia, and rheumatism. Illustrated card (6" by 4.5").....
Price: $150.00
Mail-Order Medicines,Uncle Sam in Advertising,American Iconography
Woodbury, New Jersey: G.G. Green, 1911. A nicely preserved copy of G.G. Green's almanac for 1911, published to promote his line of mail-order medicines to the public. Contains weather and astronomical predictions, pitches for Green's medicines, blank monthly charts for recording information, and a veritable flight of cartoons with jokes.....
Price: $150.00
Patriotism in Advertising,Columbia,American Iconography,Early Cinema Depictions in Advertising,Mail-Order Medicines
Woodbury, New Jersey: G.G. Green, 1915. A beautifully designed 1915 almanac promoting mail-order medicines sold by G.G. Green. This particular Green almanac courts a more wealthy or up-market clientele. The front depicts Columbia with her shield and a cornucopia of Green's medicines, looking out onto a grand scene showing "Industry.....
Price: $125.00
Patent Medicine Advertising
Rochester, New York: B.H. Bacon, c.1890. No, not that kind of bacon: printed flyer advertising a patent medicine sold by B.H. Bacon of Rochester, New York. Purports to be a "Certain Cure for Nervous Diseases, Nervous Prostration, Nervous Headache, Neuralgia, and all Disease of the Stomach, Liver, and Kidneys". Directs.....
Price: $95.00
Tulips, Flowers in Advertising, Patent Medicine
Foxcraft, Maine: 1890s. Printed advertisement for "Balm of Tulips" cold sore remedy and patent medicine, promoted by H.A. Robinson, D.D.S., of Foxcraft, Maine. Appears to be used as an insert for a newspaper, or small handbill. Includes illustration of lips and large tulip. Measures approx. 4" by 4.5", verso blank.....
Price: $175.00
1893 Columbian Exhibition,Depictions of Christopher Columbus,ABC Books,Advertising Family Medicines
United States: [1893]. A color-illustrated ABC book for little readers, advertising family medicines and household remedies. The two main products advertised as Brandreth's Pills and Allcock's Porous Plasters. Each letter of the alphabet has a different color illustration of a significant moment in American history, highlight the Columbus expedition. Some.....
Price: $200.00