Patient Medicine
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
Children as Advertising Pawns, Patent Medicine, Dr. Miles, Paper Dolls
Elkhart In. Dr. Miles Medical Co., 1902. A 20 3/4" tall die-cut easel back paper doll depicting Dorothy (Dolly) Quincy holding a bottle of Dr. Miles Restorative Nervine. The reverse introduces Dolly,the future wife of John Hancock and of course promoting the various Dr. Miles with brief narratives and a......
Price: $450.00
Family Medicine, Remedies and Cures
St. Louis, Missouri: Luyties Pharmacal Company, 1920s. A booklet for families advertising homeopathic tablets sold by the Luyties Pharmacal Company as treatments or remedies for over forty (40) afflictions ranging from appendicitis to whooping cough. Descriptions of each affliction's symptoms and dangers are included along with which tablet to use.....
Price: $100.00
Patent Medicines, Marketing, Dream Analysis, Etiquette, Laugh and Grow Fat
Baltimore, Maryland: Kohler Manufacturing Co., c.1890. Four (4) pocket-sized booklets in original illustrated wrappers, published together as a clever "collect-them-all"-type marketing scheme advertising Kohler Remedies. The booklets contained everything from jokes to dream symbols. The titles include: "Forget-Me-Not Rhymes". Baltimore: Kohler Manufacturing Co., c.1890. 32mo (5.25" by 3.25"), pp. [8].....
Price: $225.00
Patent Medicine
1870s. A 4" x 2 1/2" handbill printed in red on pink paper. The front depicts the exterior of Dundas Dick & Co, Tasteless Medicine Manufactory, 85 & 87 Wooster Street (NYC). The caption explains that by using Dick's capsules any medicine, even castor oil can be tasteless. The reverse.....
Price: $45.00
Remedies, Medicine, Advertising and Promotion
1884. 24 pp. Illustrated wrap with image of R. C. Flower on the front cover and "Hygeia of the 19th Cent" on reverse. A free to the public narrative introducing the company, the science in the preparation and skillful combinations. This is followed by detailed information on each of the.....
Price: $60.00
Advertising & Promotion, Advertising to Children, Patent Medicine, J. C. Ayer
Lowell, Mass: J. C Ayer & Co., 1880s. Four (4) different miniature stand-up die-cuts of various Ayre's products. The image of the box on front and product advertising--essentially miniature trade cards that could have been displayed on a toy store or dollhouse shelf. Scarce items. The largest is 2 1/2".....
Price: $125.00
Patent Medicines, Abraham Lincoln, American Civil War, History of Photography in Ephemera
Providence, Rhode Island: Salisbury, Bro. & Co., c1866. Printed trade card with applied photographic image advertising Dr. Bicknell's Great Cholera Remedy, with an interesting inclusion: pasted to the recto is a (very Victorian, and slightly morbid) photographic reproduction of "Columbia's Grief", an artwork depicting the allegorical Columbia weeping over Abraham.....
Price: $175.00
patent medicine, advertise, advertisement, advertising, anthropomorphism, anthropomorphic, rat, lab rat
Paris, France: Dec-53. An advertising postcard for a patent medicine called Penityrol. It was a synthetic antibiotics created to help combat diseases that are transmitted through the air or to help minimize the possibility of an infection after a surgery. What makes this advertisement extremely charming are the anthropomorphic lab.....
Price: $65.00
![Item #25026138 [Quake Medicine] Father Arent's Rheumatism Porous Plaster- In English & German](https://eclectibles.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/25026138_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1671717864)
Buffalo: c1900. A single-fold pamphlet presented by Father Arent's Plaster Co., Buffalo NY. Front cover with image from photo of Father Arent promoting his Rheumatism Porous Plaster. The inside pages include the identical message and imagery; one is in German, the other in English. A portion of the text reads.....
Price: $50.00
Patent Medicines, Treatments and Cures, Women's Health, Victorians, Mental Health
London and New York: W.H. Hooker & Co., 1880s? Illustrated Victorian booklet advertising patent medicines under the umbrella of Dr. Acker's English Remedies, which claim to treat and cure everything from consumption to "depressed feelings and the thousand ills to which the [female] sex is subject" (p. 15). The booklet.....
Price: $150.00
Patent Medicine, Vin Mariani, Cocaine, Advertising Post Cards, Artists
1900-1910. A collection of post cards introduced in five series of thirty created by renown artists of the day. Of the 150 cards this offering includes 119 original unused post cards and 31 photocopies of the original cards (place holders). The images were created by the artist, usually designed after.....
Price: $2,600.00
patent medicine, recipe, salt rheum, eczema, doctor
Providence, RI: [1870]. A recipe homeopathic medicine that would supposed provide relief for 'salt rheum and other skin diseases". Salt Rheum was the popular term for any cutaneous (skin) eruptions, like eczema. The recipe involved the use of molasses, water, and various roots such as yellow dock, spanish sarsaparilla and.....
Price: $65.00
Remedy, Podiatry
Philadelphia: Rhoads & Harris, Wholesale Druggists, [1900]. In small printed across the top of the page "magna est veritas et praevalebit" followed by The Miraculous Cure for Corns. A narrative from the inventor follows on how the cure was invented and how a corn can negatively impact one's life. Followed.....
Price: $65.00