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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Champion Harness Race Horse "Maud S." |
| Reference | 1989-8-79 |
| Library | Philadelphia Museum of Art |
| Collection | The William H. Helfand Collection, 1989 |
| Date | c. 1885-1889 |
| Document Type | Trade Card |
| Theme(s) | Botanic Medicine |
| Keywords | rheumatism, blood, cure |
| Parts of the Body | heart |
| Additional Information | Maud S. was one of trotting's immortals; her fastest time for the mile was 2:083/4 minutes, set at a track in Cleveland in 1885. Here her speed is used to advertise the rapidity with which Hibbard's Rheumatic Syrup would go to work as the "most effective remedy for Rheumatism, General Debility, Affections of the heart, and all diseases arising from Impure Blood." The jockey holds aloft both a Hibbard's Rheumatic Plaster and a bottle of the syrup, which immodestly claimed to be "a panacea for all blood diseases," and had been formulated from roots and herbs by Chloe Hibbard, a nurse and "botanical physician" practicing in Butler, New York. William H. Helfand, from 'The Picture of Health: Images of Medicine and Pharmacy from the William H. Helfand Collection' (1991), p. 111. |
| Note | Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the Philadelphia Museum of Art's catalogue. |
| Visual Content | View thumbnails |
| Copyright | Philadelphia Museum of Art |