Judge, 1888 · page 85 of 87
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What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not satire or political commentary. It contains: **Left side:** A liquor importer (Charles Schlesinger & Sons) advertising brandies, gins, wines, and whiskeys—standard commercial content. **Right side:** Medical device and patent medicine advertisements typical of the late 19th century: 1. **Howard Galvanic Shield** — an electrical "health appliance" claiming to cure kidney disease, rheumatism, weakness, and various ailments without medicine. Testimonials from supposed bankers and prominent citizens vouch for its effectiveness. 2. **Kidder's Digestylin** — a digestive aid marketed for indigestion and gastrointestinal problems. These represent the era's widespread **pseudoscientific medical fraud**. Galvanic/electrical belts and unregulated patent medicines were aggressively marketed with false testimonials and exaggerated health claims—practices that would later be regulated by the FDA. The ads reveal what people believed could cure them and what advertisers exploited.
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ESTABLISHED 1853. Charles Schlesinger & Sons, IMPORTERS, 92 and 94 LIBERTY STREET, NEW YORK. BRANDIES, GINS, WINES, OLIVE OILS, EIG., FINE OLD WHISKIES — >» 2 ho Sole Agents for «« JOHN BAPT. DIETRICH, RUDESHEIM OF RHEIM. TELEPHONE CALL, Murray 281. ‘The RESULTS ATTAINED BY ‘THIS APPLIANCE ARE UNPRECE- DENTEDIN ELECTRICAL OR MED- ICAL SCIENCE. We furnish in our Mastrated Pamphlet, wbich 1s sent free, sworn proof of the most mar- velous cures, Thisappliance ftsany partof the body. When applied over the stomach it overcomes DYSPEP- SIA, INDIGESTION, CONSTIPA- TION, BELCHING, SOURSTOMACH, LANGUOR, PALPITATION OF THE HEART, DIZZINESS, FLUSHES OF HEAT, LUMBAUO, and other treaslng feelings CONSULT US before buying any Galvanic, Magnetic or Electric Belt fe Band orother Device. You will sare TIME, HEALTH, MONEY. ADVICE PREE. ALL LETTERS CONPI- DENTIAL. Goods by mail or express. CURATIVE ‘Weakness ef the Tidaeys, 8c, 1 can speas from my own experience and that of many ‘othera who have been cured by the Howard Appliances of Kidney Dumase, Roeamnetinc ‘and ol fer any coe ‘GEO. 1. HELPRI Cashier Citizen's National ‘abland, Colouel Foster, Hotel Madison, 1th Street, New York; Roche. ‘eal Hatate, corner 8th Gt and Broad: 7 Coney Inland, ‘wonderful aps NEY DISEAE and other ailments, ‘The editors of the Dry Goods Chronicle, 13 Chambers Sureet, New York, and @'tandreda of cavers vouch for 10s ethesey. Fy | been for near! >THE HOWARD GALVANIC SHIELD< Restores Health, Strength and Vigor WITHOUT MEDICINE: worn in the Hottest Weather with Comfort and the Greatest Gtees alt the benefits of Gateantem, Magnetism and Etectricity.combnet or separately. ese. TO THOSE WHO HAVE A TIRED, WEARY FEELING, not alck, not well, muscles becoming abby and wasted, step leas Grm and elastic, the mind losing its grasp and vigor, and virlle etrength stealing’ away; aleep less refreshing, weak, languli Irritable, fretful, nervous, forgetful, ‘unsocial, without any apparent cause ; energies can noloager becon. centrated, thoughts are clouded and lsconnected, that life Is fast becom: tng a bunien toyou, or Ifyou suffer from Kidney, Liver Sleeplessness, Weak Back, Rbeums- tim, Paralysla. Epilepsy, Dyspep- ‘la, General Debility, Coastipation, Piles, Malaria, MALE OR PEMALE WEAKNESS, ora WANT OF NERVE, LIPE AND VIGOR, the Sateld will eure you. At worn on back, covering nereORTtal CORtere. Pat. February 29, 1879. READ WHAT A PROMINENT BANKER AND OTHER LEADING CITIZENS SAY ABOUT ITS EFFECTS: Do Yeu Bufer frem Rbecmation t If 40, the Howard Galvanic Shield willcure it Ttcured me, after mufferiag for three years, causing muscular erophy, Was on crutches, Now 1 aim wel tof ‘Miilin Gos Silvey, Penn. Itcured my mother of Rheumatiam after everything | else had failed. There 1s nothing on earth equal toit, EH HUTTON, Prop: Columbia House, ULRTAS Nort Broad st, Yhiladelphia, Pa. ‘Thousands use them here and all over the world. THE HOWARD AHIELD AND SUSPENSORY COMBINED is an Absolute Cure ‘Leet "Vigor and, Manhood, and be Meatkness." hls Appianes cur og the Keep open until 9 Busaay frow 10am to AMERICAN GALYANIC CO,, 756 BROADWAY, cor. Eighth Street, Over Hegeman's Drug Store. A POTENT REMEDY ACUTE DISEASES, Over 5,000 Physicians have sent tous the most FLATTERING OPIN- IONS upon DIGESTYLIN as a remedy for all diseases aris- ing from improper diges- 83 JOHN ST., tle, created by a careful and proper treatment of the ferments in manufacture, agreeable to the taste and acceptable to the most delicate stomach, For the reliability of our statements we would respectfully refer to the WHOLESALE and RETAIL DRUGGISTS of the country and PHYSICIANS generally. INDIGESTION, ACUTE AND ATONIC DYSPEPSIA, CHRONIC AND CASTRO-INTESTINAL CATARRH, VOMITING IN PREGNANCY, CHOLERA INFAN- TUM, AND IN CONVALESCENCE FROM the DIGES. TIVE PER- MENTS ex- Dressly for Physi- clans’ use, and’ for the past year DIGES- TYLIN has been by them ‘extensively prescribed, and to-day it stands without a rivalasa digestive agent. It ts not @ secret remedy, but a scien- tife preparation, the formula o ‘which is plainly printed on each bot- Its great DIGESTIVE POWER 1s It ts very SOLD BY DRUGGISTS or WM. F. KIDDER & CO,, NEW YORK. comicbooks.com