Judge, 1903-03-28 · page 14 of 16
Judge — March 28, 1903 — page 14: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page primarily features **medical advertisements**, particularly for consumption (tuberculosis) treatment and Buffalo Lithia Water, with minimal satire. The main content includes: **Dr. D.P. Yonkerman's Consumption Cure**: A lengthy advertisement claiming a "marvelous discovery" that can cure tuberculosis, with testimonials from "grateful people." The credibility is undermined by vague language about "ingredients" and comparisons to famous physicians (Koch, Pasteur, Lister), typical of patent medicine fraud of the era. **Buffalo Lithia Water ad**: Claims to neutralize acids, aid digestion, and treat various ailments—another common health product pitch of the period. **Minor elements**: A brief joke about a woman being the "inventor of necessity," cigars advertisement, and a call to learn about mineral waters. The **satire is implicit**: The page illustrates the era's widespread quack medicine industry, where unproven treatments were heavily advertised in mainstream publications. The repetition of medical claims with minimal scientific basis reflects early-20th-century consumer skepticism that *Judge* likely intended to mock.
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Consumption Can be Cured, Marvelous Discovery by the Famous Dv. Yonkerman of Kalamazoo, Mich.—State Officials and Great Medical Men Pro- ounce it the Only Cure for Con- sumption and All Throat and Lung Troubles. Consumptives Given up to Die and Sent Back From California Hopeless and Helpless are Now Alive and Well Through This Wonderful Cure for Consumption. A Free Package Containing Sufficient to Convince the Most Skeptical Sent to All ‘Who Write. Consumption ean at last be cure. Marvelous fan it may seem after the many failures, a sure, positive and certain cure for the deadly DR. D. P. YONKERMAN, the Discoverer of Teberealoryee, the Only Care for Consumption. has at last been discovered by Yonkerman, great Michigan docti lea life study nf I remedy has’ been fv sumption Derk who has His. wonderful medical ite power to kill 1 sumption. The doctor makes no secret of the ingredients of hia wonderful eure, believing that the people are entitled to such & production of science, and he ia sending {ree treatment. all ‘over the world, brining joy of knowledge of cer~ tain reseue from this awful fatal disease. Such m i a Koch, Luton, Pasteur fall the great medical and’ germ specialists chemists have alredy repeatedly declared and chat ment of consumptio catalogue of dead! y fatal , diseases and placed it in the curable list. Free trial packages and from, grateful people—former consumt tives very jaws of death ire Bui ding, Kalamazoo, masumptive man, 2070 Mich. “Dr. Yonkerman wants ev to have this mar- ‘on the face of the earth eur yea more ines, cod-liver oils, stim: wnges of climate, and it will convince you that ‘at last there has beeu discovered the true cure (07 consumption. 10 lowe when you Tung trouble. Bend t wulanta, “OF we, consumption, jo-day for {ree parkage. Margaret—" No, you cannot stay, love, Your mother says it is absolutely neces- sary, for you to come home.” clizabeth—"Oh, dear! 1 sometimes think that mother is the inventor of neces- sity, instead of necessity being the mother of invention."—Kansas City Fournal. GOOD INCOMES MAI felling our celebra 28 DE ted ‘WE SHOULD SMILE. The thing that goes the farthest toward making life worth while, That costs the least and docs the most, is just a pleasant smile— The smile that. bubbles from the heart that loves, its fellow-men Will drive away the cloud of gloom and coax the sun again. It's full of worth and goodness, too, with kindness bient: million dollars and it doesn’t cost a cent. ‘There is no room for sadness when we | sce a cheery smi It always has the Antidote to the Perni: and Liquors—Its ame good look—it's ain when failure makes us blue— Such dimples of encouragement are good for me and you. So smile away; folks understand what by smile is meant— orth a million dollars and it doesn’t cost a cent. —La Junta (Col) Republican, Dr. Roberts Bartholow, M. A. “Bartholow's Materia Medica “4 and Therapeutics," Etc., Etc.: traces of lithia and are Rheumatic, and Renal affections, IT 1S TO ME, AND I HAVE SOME EXPERI It’ would you do Phil—" I'd be most cra 4. Would you "No: I Kansas Indepe' Testimonials which defy all imputation ot Buffalo Lithia Water The Best of Known Table Waters—A Veritable Excess of Nitrogen in Rich Food. < -y LL. D., Professor of Materia Medica and veneral Therapeutics in the Jeerson Medical College of Phil ladelphis alkaline. This is used with grea “What does comfortable circumstances | «. G+ Halsted (Boytand, A.M., M. D., Paris Member 9 the Faculty of Paris: you're ‘comfortable’ when | S733 potency ret hoy LITHIA WATER ‘Ww ar PR, reference neither or rich." —Detroit a perfectly pure water, and exceedingly palatable. It in- jy, neither poor nor rich.""—Detroit) vigorates at the same time both the appetite and dixestion. It is a powerful ree Press. neutralizer of the acids, and a VERITABLE ANTIDOTE to the PERNICIOUS ACIDS of WINES and LIQUORS, enabling man: Tsons, ¢5 ts Wije—“It T were to dic, Phil, what | subject, to indulge in these with impunity, whereas fy would otherwise be inhibited. WATER is for sale by Grocers and Druggists generally. PROPRIETOR, BUFFALO LITHIA SPRINCS, VA. cious Acids of Wines Use Neutralizes ja, and author of we thor contain well defined t advantage In Gouty THE BEST TABLE WATER KNOWN IENCE OF THEM ALL.” lly the Gouty F questions sent to any address: ONE CONSOLATION. Erner—"' It must be hard to be blind.” Eprm—" It has its advantages. 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