Medical & Pharmaceutical Playing Cards
It is remarkable how often medical and pharmaceutical products are promoted using humorous or comic designs. Playing cards are no exception, with a wide variety of decks promoting pharmaceuticals, from over-the-counter drugs to children’s games.
Amistar playing cards
Publicity pack for product which controls fungal diseases in a range of crops, printed by Trefl, Kraków, Poland, c2005.
B. Braun-Dexon®
Publicity pack promoting B. Braun-Dexon’s atraumatic needles, with non-standard courts and pips.
Cardiology Trials
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by Simon Wintle
Cardiology Trials - limited edition playing cards by Krakowskie Zaklady Wyrobów Papierowych Trefl (KZWP), 2003
Carte Osteologiche
Skulls and bones of all descriptions have become the suits and pips in this 40-card pack from Italy.
Cefacidal
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by Simon Wintle
“Cefacidal” / Mead Johnson medical humour advertising playing cards, c.1975.
Deutsche Nutzpflanzen
Deutsche Nutzpflanzen - Quartett game promoting Kali brand crop fertilizer, 1938.
EPCS November 1992 Newsletter Members Only
50th Anniversary of the Battle of El Alamein • Happy Families • Karl Gerich Transformation Pack • W.D & W.O. Wills • Star Cigarettes • Famous Five • 350th Anniversary of the English Civil War • Isle of Man Packs • J. Welch • Mr Boot Marches On • Friends of the Earth
Festal advertising playing cards
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by Simon Wintle
Festal advertising playing cards for Hoechst Peruana S.A.
Gibbs Happy Families
Gibbs Happy Families card game promotion, both full sized and miniature versions, c.1946.
Laboratoires Modernes
Happy Families game by “Laboratoires Modernes” promoting herbal products, c.1929
Laboratorios Magma, S.A.
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by Simon Wintle
Publicity playing cards manufactured for Laboratorios Magma, S.A., Lima, Peru, c.1990.
Litográfica del Perú
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by Simon Wintle
Litográfica del Perú S.A. were manufacturers of playing cards in Peru sometime around the decades of the 1970s and/or 1980s.
Medizin Skat
Promotional pack for a hospital group in the Saarland, with non-standard suits and courts designed by Detlef Krause.