Judge, 1892-12-03 · page 3 of 52
Judge — December 3, 1892 — page 3: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is **primarily an advertisement**, not satirical content. It's a Scott's Emulsion product ad for cod-liver oil supplement, dressed in the elaborate decorative style typical of early 20th-century advertising. The illustrated figure appears to be a cornucopia or horn of plenty overflowing with food and vegetables—a traditional symbol of abundance and nourishment. The ad's heading "IN THE CENTRE IS HEALTH!" uses this imagery to suggest that Scott's Emulsion (containing cod-liver oil, lime, and soda) represents the nutritional foundation for good health. The text emphasizes health's importance and positions fatty foods as essential nutrition, particularly for "the thin and weak." This reflects period medical beliefs about fat-based remedies. The product cost $1.00 and was sold by druggists in salmon-colored wrappers. No political satire is evident here—this is straightforward vintage pharmaceutical marketing.
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CAG QE SCIEO CEN CA END IN THE CENTRE IS HEALTH! i Strength, Form, Beauty, Grace, all radiate from the common centre, Health. a) Y It has well been said that about everything worth being, worth doing, & ( or worth having in life requires for its accomplishment a basis of good (C (3 health, And the midwinter season suggests that the things which assist e \ to good health contribute to enjoyment of life. i Y Where health is absent we sometimes note a show of pleasantness, of y g . + soe . . y fb real patience—some dispositions are sunny even in pain—but poor health /¥ \e and actual enjoyment are not compatible—it isn’t in nature. How to get and to keep health becomes, then, the most important study of life. Pure air, wholesome foods, exercise, refreshing sleep, are aids Foop the greatest aid of all. EMULSION J of Pure Cod-Liver Oil with Hypophosphites of Lime and Soda has been (s the means of bringing directly into household use the most potent of all \ fat-foods known to medical practice. As health is the basis of life, so the y} fat within food is the basis of food life—the part ot food that contributes / to the production of sound flesh. The thin and weak require fat-food in ( abundance, and in Scott’s Emulsion there is not only great richness of fat, but oN Dit comes in a form pleasant to the taste and easy of assimilation. Al \ I a Prepared by Scott & Bowne, Chemists, New York. Sold by all Druggists—$1.00. ra The genuine always in Salmon-colored Wrapper. & \ WGP SCR OBI FLT DRS DDD OSS) comicbooks.com