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.
Merry Andrews Happy Families
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by Simon Wintle
Merry Andrews - the very Happy Families, published by Scott & Turner Ltd, 1936.
Naipes Inca for Hoechst Karidium
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by Simon Wintle
Naipes Inca for Hoechst Karidium by C. Della Penna S.A.C.I., Buenos Aires, c.1973.
Parke-Davis Pharmaceuticals
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by Simon Wintle
Parke-Davis Pharmaceuticals, c.1998 & Bodegas Trapiche, 2003.
Pepsamar advertising playing cards
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by Simon Wintle
Anglo-American style advertising playing cards made in Peru by Litográfica del Perú, c.1975, for Sydney Ross S.A. / Winthrop Pepsamar indigestion remedy.
Rzeszowskie Zakłady Farmaceutyczne “Polfa”
Photographs of pharmaceutical products, produced for RZF, Rzeszów, Poland, c.1995.
