Judge, 1922-12-30 · page 2 of 37
Judge — December 30, 1922 — page 2: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Analysis This page is primarily **advertising, not satire**. It promotes "Nujol," a commercial laxative product, using testimonial letters from physicians and patients claiming to have overcome constipation. The photograph shows an unidentified man (likely a doctor or company representative) at a desk with product bottles, positioned to convey medical authority and legitimacy. The testimonials employ common early 20th-century advertising rhetoric—"relieved without affecting the baby," "constipated for two years"—to establish credibility through relatable human stories. **The satire element, if any, is subtle**: Judge magazine may be gently mocking the overwrought medical testimonial format itself, which was (and remains) a fixture of patent medicine advertising. However, the page functions primarily as paid promotion rather than editorial commentary.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
| | | Letters from Physicians and Public Tell how Nujol has overcome many thousand cases of constipation come px of sickness ¢ testimony to the stipation in peor health. We quote at random. “Relieved her without affecting the baby’” “When the same trouble (constipation our third child, our physician laxative medicine for my wife th the baby. | th to try It relieved rout the baby result we have t child I ever “‘Constipated for two years, relieved by Nujol” “1 don’t think pated then been constipated fe it relieved him. “Relieved hemorrhoids”” For two years I s red with hemorrhoids. _ | spent bout $800 before | discov ered Nujol To-day, after Guaranteed by Nujol Laboratories. Nujol, Room 828P, 44 Beaver Street, New York 10 cents, stamps a trial bottle of a the day | was born, “A wonderful product"’—Says Doctor erful product. I w using it and all ased with it “Nujol all it is claimed to be? Nujol has given me new life It possesses a wonderful the intestines, witho arning, kening sensations that result from the use of pills or other purgatives. Nujol is all it is claimed to be by its makers, and if more people s merits there would be less sickness and world “'Sutre to dive relief without griping”” venty-four years of and had for years. Have si red much relief by using physi Nujol every morning and find it without griping pains of any kind ch in favor of Nujol as the best reme use it with the griping; no ph ommend it to all Standard Ou Co. (New Jersey For Constipation ind 24-page te For booklet only, check here id without mor Address ubGe > . 2 : October Publubed Weekly and copy Douglas It. Cooke, es For this coupon and postage, please send me Dangers of Constipation.” ——- es —————— ar Ove 1 Lubricant—Not a Laxative a Otice at New York City, N.Y. under Act of March 5.1829. $8.00 2 yrar VicePree; E. J. McDounell, Trea: W. D. Green, Secretary, 627 West 44 Street, New York,