Vintage Medicine Ads

FAT BANISHED! How? With Sanitized Tapeworms. Easy To Swallow.

The idea was that you could eat as much as you wanted and the tapeworms living inside of you would then eat that food so it wouldn’t go onto your hips.

I call fail. Massive (no pun intended) fail.

McNeil Butisol Sodium
Brand name for butabarbital. “Mabel is unstable…it’s ‘that time’ in her life. To see her through the menopause, there’s gentle ‘daytime sedation’ in Butisol Sodium.”

Norodin
Brand name for methamphetamine. “The selective cerebral action of Norodin is useful in dispelling the shadows of mild mental depression.”

Can I get a ‘fail’? This is why I love vintage medicine. ;)

Lloyd Cocaine Toothache Drops {1885}

Cocaine was sold over-the-counter until 1914 in the US. Crazy!

Quaalude advertisement {1971}

Cuticura – Blemishes. Try This Tested Way To Help Relieve Blackheads And Externally Caused Pimples {1947}

Unknown’s Poundex – Wanted: 1000 Skinny People To Gain Solid Pounds of Flesh on Chest, Arms, Legs and Body – or Money Back {1953}

Gleem Toothpaste {1956}