Judge, 1891 · page 2 of 69
Judge — 1891 — page 2: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains **no cartoon or satirical content**. Instead, it consists entirely of **patent medicine advertisements** — two separate pitches offering free trial bottles. The first advertisement promises a cure for consumption (tuberculosis) from T.A. Slocum in New York. The second, larger ad from H.F. Root at the same address, claims to cure epilepsy and "falling sickness" through a remedy allegedly distributed over 73,000 times in twenty years. Both ads use identical marketing tactics: promising free trials, claiming miraculous cures, and urging desperate patients to write immediately. This reflects the **unregulated medical fraud** common in early 20th-century America, when Judge magazine apparently accepted dubious pharmaceutical advertising despite its satirical mission. These ads target vulnerable, suffering populations with false medical promises.
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CONSUMPTION SURELY CURED. To the Editor: Please inform your readers that I have a positive remedy for consumption. By its timely use thousands of hopeless cases have been permanently cured. I shall be glad to send two bottles of my remedy FREE to any of your readers who have consump- tion, if they will send me their Express and P.O. address. Respectfully, T. A. Slocum, M.C., 180 Pearl street, New York. ’ EPILEPSy OR FALLING SICKNESS. To prove this statement beyond all question, I will gladly give a bottle of my remedy to every reader of this paper who is unfortunate enough to be a sufferer from the above named terrible disease, there- by giving them an opportunity to test its great curative virtues absolutely free of cost During the past 20 years I have given away over 73,654 sample trial bottles of this great remedy. If it did not possess all the virtues I claim for it, I certainly could not have continued in business up to this time. I have made a life-long study of the disease of Fits, Epilepsy or Falling Sickness, and when I say cure, I do not mean merely to sto} them for a time and then have them return again—I mean a radical, absolute and lasting cure. I have known my remedy to cure even the worst and most ho; less cases. Because you have tried the remedies of others and failed to receive a cure, is no reason why you should continue to suffer. The afflicted should send at once for my treatise and a free trial bottle of medicine. Remember, it costs you nothing for a trial, and it will surely cure you. Do not delay Jonger, but write at once, giving your post office and express address. Respectfully, H. F. ROOT, 183 Pearl Street, New York, comicbooks.com