Life, 1885-10-29 · page 16 of 16
Life — October 29, 1885 — page 16: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire. It contains commercial notices for tailors, pianos, beverages, and—most notably—patent medicines. The significant content is a medical advertisement for **Warner's Safe Cure for Bright's Disease** (kidney failure). The ad lists exhaustive symptoms—from "hot and dry skin" to "chills and fever"—designed to convince readers they have this serious condition, then promises a cure. This reflects late-19th-century **medical quackery**: patent medicines made exaggerated claims about treating incurable diseases with unproven remedies. Below that, **Cuticura** advertises a "positive cure" for eczema and skin diseases, similarly overstating its efficacy. These ads exploit contemporary medical anxiety and lack of regulation. Modern readers should recognize this as **predatory marketing**—exploiting genuine health concerns with false promises, a practice eventually curtailed by FDA regulations and truth-in-advertising laws. The tailoring and piano ads reflect ordinary period commerce with no satirical content.
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LIFE §. SCHWEPPE & CO. Having established the reputation throughout Great Britain as manufacturers of the Purest Mineral Waters, we offer to the American public eur Unrivaled Soda, Carbonated | Lemonade, Potass, Seltzer, Lithia, Quinine Tonic and Ginger Ales, swect and dry. ‘Send for price list to-go and $2 Washington Ave., Brooktyn, LT. By special appointment to Her Majtsty the Queen of Great Britain and all the Royal Famil Cavanagh, Sanford & Co., Merchant Tailors and Importers, 16 West 23d STREET, DECKER BROTHERS’ MATCHLESS PIANOS 33 Union Square, N. Y. Opposite Fifth Ave. Hotel, NEW YORK. MAKERS OF THE PAJAMAS AND G S$ SHIRT UNDERWEAR, SPECIALTY IN FINE TAILORING IMPORTED LONDON- MADE GARMENTS The styles: are the present London Fashions which are desired most by those who import for themselves and which it is expected will be copied after in this country. Gentlemen who send their orders abroad, or those who have desired to but have not the opportunity, can be suited from my fall importations which comprises Fall Weight Overcoats, Fall Driving Coats, Irish Frieze and Wool Ulsters, Strapped Covert Coat, Waterproof Covert, The Storm D.B. Ulster, Pleated Shooting Coats. WE ILLUSTRATE THE “COVERT COAT” VERY POPULAR FOR RIDING OR WALKING. AND “ THE LONDON CAPE COAT,” IN PLAIDS AND FANCY CHECKS. E. O. THOMPSON, IMPORTER AND TAILOR, 908 WALNUT ST., 245 BROADWAY, PHILA. (ORDERS BY MAIL CAREFULLY FILLED.) “NEW YORK. HAVE YOU Hot and dry skin? Scalding sensations? Swelling of the ankles? Vague feelings of unrest? Frothy or brick-dust fluids Acid Stomach? Aching loins Cramps, growing nervousness? Strange soreness of the bowels? Unaccountable languid feelings? Short breath and pleuritic pains? One-side Headache? Backache? Frequent attacks of the ‘‘blues"? Flattering and Distress of the heart? Albumen and tube casts in the water? Fitful rheumatic pains and neuralgia? Loss of appetite, fiesh and strength? Constipation alternating with looseness of the bowels? Drowsiness by day, wakefulness at night? Abundant pale. or scanty flow of dark water? Chills and fever? Burning patches of skin? Then YOU HAVE Bright's Disease of the Kidneys. The above symptoms are not developed in any order, but appear, disappear, and reappear until the disease grad- ually gets a firm grasp on the constitatioa, the kidney- poisoned blood breaks down the nervous system, and finally pneumonia, diarthora, bloodlessness, heart disease, apo- plezy, paralysis, or convulsions ensue and then death is io evitable. This fearful disease 13 not a rare one—itisan every-day disorder, and claims more victims than any other complaint. It must be treated in time or it will gain the mastery. Don't neglect it. Warner's SAPE Cure has cured thousands of cases of the worst type, and it will cure you if you will use it promptly and as directed. It is the only specihe for the universal BRIGHT'’S DISEASE H. H. WARNER & CO., Rochester, N. Y. (uticura A POSITIVE CURE for every form of CZEMA, or Salt Rheum, with its agonizing itching and burmine, instantly relieved by a warm tath wit lication of Curicura, the 7s with two or three Blood Punter 12 perspirahinn pure and untrntating, rill speedily Licher pecies of it ricuna Soar a8d 0 sing skin Cure. renente Soses of Curicura Rusovvant, the keep the blood cool, the the bowels open, the liver and ki cure Eesemay Tettcr, Ringworm, tus Seall Head, Déndral ad crery species : imply Humors of the Skin and Scalp, wi Fa of Hii, when "Hz peat poysicans and! all beows remedies Cuncuna Rewepins are abecle infallible Blood Purifiers and ne dant poisonous ingredients, Sold crerymbere. Price, Coticura go cents cents; Resolvent, $1. Giunicat Con Beaton, Matar (7 Send for * How to Cure Skin Diseases.” OWMBIAS BICYCLES ES REE STRIGYGLES- S2822! BRANCH HOUSES—ta Warren St, N. mg Wala op Chicago. pure and the only tifiers free from Soap, 25 Dave axo GILLIES BROTHERS & TURNURE, ART AGE PRESS, 78-79 FULTON STREET, NEW YORK. comicbooks.com