Vintage Health Advertisements

19th-century trade cards and illustrations humorously depicting various doctors and medical practices, conveying historical health themes.

Female surgeon adjusting surgical mask and a male doctor flirting with a female nurse

Advertisement for Cuticura soap, manufactured by the Potter Drug and Chemical company, is an antibacterial medicated soap. Dated 20th century

How Mulford Vaccine is made. How Mulford Vaccine is made

Publicidad farmacéutica de Cafiaspirina, de Laboratorios Bayer. Años 1930.

Stop cancer now Delay reduces the chance for recovery circa 1936-1938.

New England hospital for women and children fair at Tremont Temple , Goddesses, Exhibitions, Athena Greek deity

Doctor Ralph's pills.

Dr. Pierce's family medicines - Advertisement circa 1874

Red Cross nurse - World War I Era

Poster promoting early diagnosis and treatment for cancer, showing a rooster crowing at sunrise.

Dr. Pierce's family medicines.

Don't stop tobacco but take Baco=Curo, the only scientific cure for the tobacco habit.. Don't stop tobacco but take Baco=Curo, the only scientific cure for the tobacco habit.

Hoyt's German Cologne & Rubifoam, Medical - Dental

Immunisation is the Only Safeguard. Country: England Printed By: Multi Machine Plates, Ltd.. 1942 - 1945. Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information. Domestic Operations Branch. Bureau of Special Services. 3/9/1943-9/15/1945. World War II Foreign Posters

Red Cross Magazine, October 1917, Medical - American Red Cross

Ayer's Ague Cure is warranted to cure all malarial disorders.. Ayer's Ague Cure is warranted to cure all malarial disorders.

Man with Backache.

Brochure - Doctors and a Specialist Failed ! People Called it a Miracle !

Messer's inhaling tube Dr. Wilton's catarrh cure, and mandrake and horehound pills. Date Created/Published: ca. 1869: Prints show, on the left, Messer's patented inhaling tube, for use with, on the right, Dr. Wilton's catarrh cure.

Sun Cholera Mixture, Medical - Potions, Medications, & Cures

Digestoids, Medical - Potions, Medications, & Cures

An advertisement for a dentifrice. Dated 19th century

Pate Dentrifice du Docteur Pierre, Medical - Dental

An advertisement for Larola skin care. Dated 20th century

Arsenic, Medical - Potions, Medications, & Cures

Poster promoting diagnosis and treatment for cancer.

Comp. Solution of Cresol, Medical - Potions, Medications, & Cures

More women die of cancer than do men 70 percent of the 35,000 women who die annually of cancer of the breast and uterus could be saved if treated in time circa 1936-1937.

War Relief, Give!, Medical - American Red Cross

'The Glaxo baby is like a ray of sunshine in the home - so happy and contented is he, so full of life and merriment'. And so he should be, for excepting breast-milk, Glaxo is the finest food he can have - and he can have it either as his sole food from birth or in turn with breast-milk - or his mother can improve and increase the supply of breast-milk by taking Glaxo herself. No added milk or cream is required, because Glaxo itself is milk and cream. Date: 1914

Glenn's Sulphur Soap, Medical - Dermatolgy

Pharmaceutical advertising Gamma Globulin Hubber, obtained from human plasma for the treatment of immunodeficiencies. 1950s.

Don't fear cancer fight it! circa 1936-1938.

Walker's Neuralgia Mixture, Medical - Potions, Medications, & Cures

Take Schenck's Seaweed Tonic for dyspepsia and debility.. Take Schenck's Seaweed Tonic for dyspepsia and debility.

1944 Marlia Poster - Don't go to bed with a malaria mosquito.

Advertisement for Palmolive soap from the First World War, claiming to keep skin 'beautifully soft and healthy,' essential when caring for wounded men. Date: 1915

White Iodine, Medical - Potions, Medications, & Cures

Stamp out syphilis and gonorrhea Have you had your blood test and examination : Go to your doctor or Dept. of Health. Poster issued by the Works Progress Administration, Federal Art Project, between 1936 and 1938

No-To-Bac, Medical - Potions, Medications, & Cures

Muriatic Acid, Medical - Potions, Medications, & Cures

Calder's saponaceous dentine for the teeth.. text. Posters. 1895 - 1917. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection. Posters, American, Trees, Women , Clothing & dress , United States

Athlo - Ointment for Croup, Cold or Sore Throat, Medical - Potions, Medications, & Cures

First formulated in the mid 1830s by Dr John B McMunn (or MMunn), it became a big hit in the US once a drug company called A B Sands bought the recipe in 1841. The dosage instructions gave plenty of room for manoeuvre: To a child a month old, or younger, give from half a drop to two drops; to a child 6 months old, from 3 to 10 drops; and to adults from 10 to 60 drops (or even double or treble that much, if the pain and other symptoms be severe and urgent) mixed in two or three teaspoonsfuls of water, according to the size of the dose. As the administration of every medicine should be governed by its effects, it is proper to begin with the smallest dose, and increase or repeat it at proper intervals until the desired effects are produced. In 1864 the original recipe came to light, showing the process of treating opium with sulphuric ether to remove the narcotine and make the product safe - a nice idea but narcotine doesnt have narcotic properties anyway, and the medicine certainly was

Ayer's Hair Vigor for the toilet. Restores gray hair to its natural vitality and color.. Ayer's Hair Vigor for the toilet. Restores gray hair to its natural vitality and color.

Arnica Tooth Soap, Medical - Dental

A gleeful physician closely examines the buttocks of a middle-aged lady. Colour process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.

Brundage Pharmacy , Commercial facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

How's your liver Take Burdock Pills. Save doctor's bills.. How's your liver Take Burdock Pills. Save doctor's bills.

Doctor Cruzel, Medical - Potions, Medications, & Cures

Medicinal Alum, Medical - Potions, Medications, & Cures

'The wonderful difference'! Could you have more convincing proof of the enormous attraction of the new Eugene method of treating straight hair. 1923

'It's Benger time for Mother before baby arrives'. In the trying days before baby arrives, also throughout nursing time, the sooting comfort of Benger's food is invaluable. The medical profession has for many years recommended it for nursing mothers, especially while baby is growing, and when feeding begins to overtire. Benger's food increases nutrition and promotes an abundant supply of rich breast milk. When weaning time comes, give Benger's in turn with the breast. Inthis way, baby

Medical Ad Campaign.

Don't wait - 70% are doomed if treatment of syphilis is delayed for 3 years after the disease is contracted Consult a reputable physician. circa 1936-1937.

Psoriasis, Fish Scales, and Eczema - CURED - $1.00, Medical - Dermatolgy

Wanted 25,000 Student Nurses, Women of Strength

Chloroform, Medical - Potions, Medications, & Cures

Chloroform, Medical - Potions, Medications, & Cures

Pharmaceutical advertising Nico-Hepatocyn, dragees for the restoration of liver function. 1950s.

When you share needles you could be shooting up AIDS 1980s AIDS Poster.

Glaxo the food that 'builds bonnie babies'. 'Throughout the British Empire - babies that cannot be breast-fed are being reared on British made and British Owned'. This is because Glaxo is enriched milk, made germ-free by the Glaxo process, which also breaks down the nourishing curd of the milk into minute, easily digested particles. 1914

Powdered Alum, Medical - Potions, Medications, & Cures

Tin can of fine aluminum oxide McIntyre Powder used to protect Ontario miners from silicosis

Bay Rum, Medical - Potions, Medications, & Cures

Depicts Zena Pharmacy, created in color by an anonymous artist in 1907.

Anaesthesiology, "The Beggar's Opera".

Pharmaceutical advertising Bucodrín, oropharyngeal antiseptic. 1950s.

Glycerin, Medical - Potions, Medications, & Cures

To kill pain - get a Bell-cap-sic Plaster - no home complete without one.. To kill pain - get a Bell-cap-sic Plaster - no home complete without one.

Muriatic Acid, Medical - Potions, Medications, & Cures

Mental Health Poster - Not everyone with depression is this visible POSTER ca. 1991.

Glaxo the food that 'builds bonnie babies'. 'Throughout the British Empire - babies that cannot be breast-fed are being reared on British made and British Owned'. This is because Glaxo is enriched milk, made germ-free by the Glaxo process, which also breaks down the nourishing curd of the milk into minute, easily digested particles. When mixed with boiling water, Glaxo at once forms a mofified milk which is natural (not artificial) nourishment - a complete food for baby from birth. 1914

Pharmaceutical advertising Oncosal, powerful recalcifier. 1950s.

Newspaper article featuring coloured nurses of the National Health Service. Dated 1955

Southalls' Towels, 1909. Advertisement for menstrual products. 'Leading Physicians and Nurses endorse the use of Southalls' Towels, the greatest invention of the age for women's comfort. Sold by all Drapers, Ladies' Outfitters and Chemists, in silver packets containing 1 dozen at 6d., also manufactured under their improved Patents, 1/-, 1/6 & 2/-. A Sample Packet containing 6 towels in the four standard sizes post free, in plain wrapper, for 6 stamps from the Lady Manager, 17, Bull St., Birmingham. Southalls' Compressed Towels - tiny silver packets, only 2¼ in. long, Size A., 1d. ; B,

Continuation of facts.. the variolae vaccinae or cow pox.

In 1958, the FDA seized 2,671 bulk cartons (containing 26,710 packs of cigarettes) of Trim Reducing-Aid cigarettes on the grounds that they were misbranded and unlawfully introduced into interstate commerce.

Precipitated Chalk, Medical - Potions, Medications, & Cures

Pharmaceutical advertising Adecrisine, complex with vitamin A and vitamin D. 1950s.

Islamic tratise on surgery

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