My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck By Lightning

questionableadvice:

~ Morison’s Pills, 1868
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“Cure All Curable Diseases”

Modest claims indeed.

pensieriandmiscellany:

questionableadvice:

~ What Shall I Eat? The Housewife’s Manual, by Miss E. Neill, 1892

i cannot decide whether i like the advice or the title from which it came more.

I’ll have to give this a try. Anyone know where I can get a muskrat skin in Australia?

biomedicalephemera:

One of many questionable devices on the photostream.

Right out of a mad scientist’s laboratory.

Now this is Science!

(via cabbagingcove)

questionableadvice:

~ Be Kind to Your Eyes: Read and Write with Emeralite, H. G. McFaddin & Co., 1916
via internet archive
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“More efficient than hot water bags or poultices”

ofpaperandponies:

“let me heal your acne with the power of the x-ray”

I love you, history. I can’t wait to see what quackery we’ve been partaking in 50 years down the line.

(Source: biomedicalephemera)