From the Sears catalog...

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Thanks for clearing that up! I have been still thinking about that since I said it.
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Of course, since this is a condition that is associated with pregnancy, that brings up the chilling realization that women who were expecting were apparently being urged to use arsenic wafers. :o :(

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Pills for women and men. Quite a list of conditions cured, isn't it? (Open image in new tab to increase size.)
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donnie wrote:
Mon May 29, 2017 4:47 pm
Of course, since this is a condition that is associated with pregnancy, that brings up the chilling realization that women who were expecting were apparently being urged to use arsenic wafers. :o :(
True!! I haven't​ thought of that.
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donnie wrote:
Mon May 29, 2017 4:57 pm
Pills for women and men. Quite a list of conditions cured, isn't it? (Open image in new tab to increase size.)
It's interesting that in the women's side it says (in the midst of telling you all the things it will cure)it says this is not a cure all. On the men's side, it mentions to beware of quack doctors, which is fancy words for this treatment is not fake. (Which it most certainly was. I think the makers knew that.)
$3.00 would have been a lot of money back then.
Also, these diseases that it cures are curiously specific. :lol:
Early decay?! What the heck?
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Kitty wrote:
Mon May 29, 2017 6:20 pm
Early decay?! What the heck?
That does sound oddly vague. I think a lot of these "illnesses" are euphemisms for varying types of sexual disfunction. I'm not sure about that one, but obviously some are in the men's pills. I guess customers would catch on to what was meant.

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"Sense of goneness"! Man, that's like real gone.

Once I toured the Yuengling brewery in Pennsylvania and the guide mentioned that at the turn of the last century doctors used to recommend their porter as a source of nutrition for pregnant women. Yup, beer.

I used to know a woman who was a chemical engineer (should certainly know better, right?) and yet swore by homeopathy. I'll never understand that. Guess chemical doesn't translate into biological.
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dachshundonstilts wrote:
Tue May 30, 2017 5:36 am
Once I toured the Yuengling brewery in Pennsylvania and the guide mentioned that at the turn of the last century doctors used to recommend their porter as a source of nutrition for pregnant women. Yup, beer.
I'm not surprised. Here is another page from the 1902 Sears advertising a malt and hops concoction. Among the people it's recommended for are pregnant women—and babies. :roll:
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Cake will do much the same thing. :lol:
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Yes, and more cheaply! But there aren't a whole lot of people around today with this need. :? :)

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