Judge, 1886-10-23 · page 14 of 19
Judge — October 23, 1886 — page 14: what you’re looking at
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This page is **entirely an advertisement** for Dr. Pierce's "Golden Medical Discovery," a patent medicine, disguised as editorial content. There are no cartoons or satire present. **What this represents:** The page is a standard example of late-19th-century medical advertising common in American magazines. It features testimonial letters from supposed patients claiming cures for liver disease, malaria, consumption (tuberculosis), dyspepsia, diarrhea, and blood disorders. **Historical context:** These "patent medicines" were largely unregulated and often contained questionable ingredients. The testimonials use specific place names and names (though generic enough to be unverifiable) to create credibility. Judge magazine accepted such advertising alongside satirical content. **For modern readers:** This illustrates pre-FDA medicine marketing practices and demonstrates how publications legitimized dubious health claims through customer testimonials—a marketing technique that persists today.
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LIVER, BLOOD AND LUNG DISEASES. i ks of bilious fever, sometimes diarrly suffered from’li LIVER DISEASE. | loss of uppetit ie ' pain in the back of the head, shoulder-blades, fullness after ‘ing, gene debilit: tongue coated. After ing four bottles of * Dr. Pi ical Diseovery” and ¢ Pellets,’ [find [am as well as Lever MANTHA Gaines, Lockport, N.Y. wri ‘A BAD] years previoun to 1880 1 had been trou CASE. Hof my bac cross my shoulder bl: Hess with i 1 from wind; w p; also troubled with dizziness and p-daughter, Mrs, Th restless nights, 's Golden Med- * For six or eight considera T could hardly s! pels, Twas induced by F ., to try the ‘Golden Medical’ Discovery. ous,” After taking three bottles I was entire GENERAL pide Hise” i . writes: GENERAL . Roe’ Sir—My wife DEBILITY. ; J firmed juvalid. help her, and it seemed as if she must die. On randum Books, it occurred to me that your ‘Golden Med and after its use a ch g five bottles she suffered for of your Memo cal’ Discovers nge for the well woman, mluced good saving of my wife's better was noti Thave recomme ts. Ican never feel too grateful to you for t right side and under the | I with a severe pain | “Dr. RV. | Liver Disease.—Merrit STREET, GIVEN UP | Bug Springs, Ala., writes: “ Miss TO DIE. place, had been sick for more than a affection of the liver, but when she was at the lowest she bought three botles of * Golden Medical Discovery’ from me, and, although before using the medicine she en ie by all’ the ‘attending sicians, her fatther assures me that she has now fully recovered.” Mas. Carouixe Staatoxps, Medina, MALARIAL have been troubled with symptoms of malaria, with FEVER. | for three years, but after using three bottles of your * den Medical Discovery’ and “Pleasant Purgative Pellet y that 1am entirely cured, and to-day I am perfectly well own work.” Dyspepsia. writes: * After n DYSPEPSIA CURED. | evils of dyspeps Medical Discs L feel for the great good it has d eating, and I enjoy life as well as anybody DIARRHEA AND COUGH a mile last week Ley A, Woop, Taylor's Store, Va. any years of great suffering from the 1 was induced to try your ‘Golden and I cannot express the gratitud: I do not suffer any pain from an wish.” Mrs. Curtis Boove, West Ei osburg, Vt., writes: * Two bottles of your *( Iden Medical Discovery’ cured my cough and chronic diarrhea. It has. worked like a charm in mycase. It istruly wonderful. I walked over to recommend your medicines.” “THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE.” Thoroughly ¢ nt spirits, olden Medical it prov ABSCESS OF LIVER. her no good: that she had an ulcer on her liver 1. Well, sir, 19 our surprise, when she be ical Discovery nmenced spitting up phlegm for ‘some two. wee and then commenced spitting up corruption and blood (it looked like whi comes out of a blood boil) for some ten days, She now has been well for weeks,” Boils and Carb soundness of constitution will be ures all humors, from the common { alt-rheum or Tetter, Feve BSON, Kenwood, Pu When she be strength, Isaac € My wife is get- ir ‘Golden writes: to use Ohio, writes: “1 y,’ and the result fst time in mar 1... Toledo, Discov very muck le, blote sores, Hip joint Dis | Co. pst the blood, which isthe fountain of health, by gaing De: Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery, and good digestion, a fav skin, ablished, or eruption, to the worst Scrofu Especially has crofulous Sores and Swellings, Enlarged Glands and Eating Ulcers. = Mrs. A. L. Cony, Hadley, Crawford Co., Kansas, SCROFULOUS | writes: “My son. rs, was taken down SORES. right shoulder, left pless for five months, whe: hip and ontinued to discharge at the tim four of w ing ped four bottles fof the *Di is almost well ¢ fourths of a mile to school every A scrofulous sore on his arm, which ran constantly for two years, has healed completely | under the influence of the re “Fever § Towa, wri advice respect Medical Disco’ 1 am the person who wrote you two years fever sores on my leg. I took six bottles of your ‘Golden s, and was cured.” nor and Sore Eyes.—Mrs. 8, E. GRaypox, y daughter has been entirely cured of scrofu- panties tumor on her_neck by the use of your ‘Golden | Medical Discovery.’ I have great faith in all your medicines. CONSUMPTION, WEAK LUNGS, SPITTING OF BLOOD. cures Consumption (which i ee Weak rete Spitting of Blood, Shortness of Br it promptly cures the severest Coughs The nutritive properties of cod LUNG DISEASE wiih n disease regarding which the three phyaicians who attended me were unable to agree. One of the foremost ins in Boston called it a tumor of the stomach, and treated me for nother, a homaopathie physic I weighed 157 pounds. ts, kidney troubles, ete., and was ve me up. They were unable to At that time I weighed but ninety ‘pounds, and had jown, but had to sit up in order to breathe. I had ty room for six months. expecting to die. T > bad at times that [could not allow any one to come into my SAVED | room, as L could not talk: nor was [able to walk. [picked HIS LIFE | up one of vour memorandum books on the floor of the hot where I was boarding, and after reading it I began taking your ‘Golden Medical Discovery’ and the first bottle brought me round 80 that I could walk around the room all day. I soon began to build up, and xained so rapidly that it astonished me. Thave taken no other medicine since then, and have used perhaps twenty bottles in medicine. Ustopped taking it in August, one year ago. T feel th: saved my life. I now weigh about 160 poun: dd I think, and my friends with me, that this medicine saved my life. It certainly ix worth its weight in gold, and [consider it a wonderful remedy from its effect in curing all my’ ail- ments.” thought t had consumption suffered from a heavy co reduced so rapid]; help me in the leas not-been able to Ii been ¢ fines! t GOLDEN MEDICAL DISCOVERY IS SOLD BY DRUGGISTS. rrofula of the Lun, h, Bronchitis, Se it strengthens the system and purifies the blood. ver oil are trifling when compared with those possessed by Golden Medical Discovery. system, and increases the flesh and weight of those reduced below the usual standard of health by ‘ wasting diseases.” ), by its wonderful blood-purifying, invigorating and nutritive proy ‘e Coughs. Asthma, and kindred atfections, it is a sovereign remedy It rapidly builds up the Consumption Cured.—W. H. Hartiry, Vera A SKELETON. } not long since, and he told me of the very low state of health he had been in and he applied to our best doctor, but gradually grew worse under his treatment: was reduced to a skeleton had a fearful cough and was thought to have consump While in th a visit to see his rel elations, and w wi distant town, Medical Dis: cr had been, “When T'saw him, he looked to be in the bloom of health, Iis statement caused a great deal of inquiry, as ne is a man of high standing.” Josern F, McFaxtanp, Athens, La., BLEEDING ‘e had frequent bleeding from the lungs be ore sh FROM LUNGS. | commenced using your ‘ Golden Medical Dise é has not had any since its use. For some six months she has been feeling so well that she has discontinued it.” writes: “* My Consumption Cured.—J. Aytuosy Swixk, Dongola, Ills., “For five years I suffered very much from a general cough’ and More than‘a year since I commenced to take your ‘Golden Medi covery,’ and it has completely cured me. I thank you for the splendid health T have since enjoyed. PRICE $1.00 per BOTTLE, or SIX BOTTLES for $5.00. WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Proprietors, No, 663 Main Street, BUFFALO, New Yors.