August 4, 2011 • 5 notes
Norwich Pharmacal Co.’s Pepto-Bismol – She passed her Exams but her stomach Flunked (1946)

Norwich Pharmacal Co.’s Pepto-Bismol – She passed her Exams but her stomach Flunked (1946)

August 3, 2011 • 5 notes
Kotex Snow Skiers Coffee Break Personally Yours {1948}

Kotex Snow Skiers Coffee Break Personally Yours {1948}

August 3, 2011 • 4 notes
Associated Nutrition Consultant’s Protam Nutritional Plan – “I Found A lazy Way To Reduce” (1949)

Associated Nutrition Consultant’s Protam Nutritional Plan – “I Found A lazy Way To Reduce” (1949)

August 3, 2011 • 7 notes
Johnson & Johnson’s First Aid Products {1946}

Johnson & Johnson’s First Aid Products {1946}

August 3, 2011 • 1 note
Chas. H. Phillips Chemical Co.’s Milk of Magnesia – They’re both in the swim today. {1946} Milk of magnesia is used to relieve constipation. Judging by the amount of ads there were for constipation remedies in the 1940s and 1950s, constipation must have been a very frequent problem. I wonder if it was from all those repressed emotions?

Chas. H. Phillips Chemical Co.’s Milk of Magnesia – They’re both in the swim today. {1946}

Milk of magnesia is used to relieve constipation. Judging by the amount of ads there were for constipation remedies in the 1940s and 1950s, constipation must have been a very frequent problem. I wonder if it was from all those repressed emotions?

August 2, 2011 • 12 notes
No Belladonna Backfire!

No Belladonna Backfire!

August 2, 2011 • 5 notes
Now She Can Cook Breakfast Again! Drug once used to control morning sickness in pregnancy. One of the side effects was low blood pressure.

Now She Can Cook Breakfast Again!

Drug once used to control morning sickness in pregnancy. One of the side effects was low blood pressure.

August 2, 2011 • 15 notes
VITAMINS FOR PEP! The Harder A Wife Works, The Cuter She Looks!

VITAMINS FOR PEP! The Harder A Wife Works, The Cuter She Looks!

August 2, 2011 • 7 notes
If you want to be popular, you can’t afford to be SKINNY!

If you want to be popular, you can’t afford to be SKINNY!

August 2, 2011 • 2 notes
Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People {1890} Late 19th to early 20th century patent medicine containing iron oxide and magnesium sulfate. [1] It was produced by Dr. Williams Medicine Company, the trading arm of G. T. Fulford & Company. It was claimed to cure chorea, referenced frequently in newspaper headlines as “St. Vitus’ Dance,” as well as “locomotor ataxia, partial paralyxia, seistica, neuralgia rheumatism, nervous headache, the after-effects of la grippe, palpitation of the heart, pale and sallow complexions, [and] all forms of weakness in male or female.”

Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People {1890}

Late 19th to early 20th century patent medicine containing iron oxide and magnesium sulfate. [1] It was produced by Dr. Williams Medicine Company, the trading arm of G. T. Fulford & Company. It was claimed to cure chorea, referenced frequently in newspaper headlines as “St. Vitus’ Dance,” as well as “locomotor ataxia, partial paralyxia, seistica, neuralgia rheumatism, nervous headache, the after-effects of la grippe, palpitation of the heart, pale and sallow complexions, [and] all forms of weakness in male or female.”