Ailments Collection

Carbolic smoke ball
An advertisment placed by the Carbolic Smoke Ball Company for the carbolic smoke ball, a cure for all types of ailments

Advert for Foot's Bath Cabinet 1924
Hot-air vapour to open up the pours, cleansing the skin, claiming to preventing colds, influenza, rheumatism, liver and kidney complaints and skin affections. Date: 1924

Carbolic Smoke Ball / 1893
Advertisement for The Carbolic Smoke Ball Co. which claimed to offer a cure for a wide variety of ailments. This led to a court case on grounds of deception & a landmark ruling

Gout (Bunbury)
No need for the sufferer from GOUT to wait till he gets to Hell - the devil gives him a foretaste of the torments that await him

SYPHILIS / 1883
Diagram to show the rash which appears in the second stage of syphilis

Gout Devil Bites 1799
A little devil sinks his teeth into the swollen foot of a gout sufferer

Enos Cockerel
Enos Fruit Salts, a popular cure for digestive ailments throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries

Valentine Greatrakes
Irish healer who, after a dream in 1662, discovered that he could heal many ailments simply by passing his hands and stroking the patient

Anti-Flu Masks
A man and a woman wearing anti-flu masks. These masks cover the nose and mouth and are designed to prevent germs spreading. They may work but they look very curious!

Gout Man Fishes at Home
Unable to go fishing due to his painful gout, a sufferer casts his rod into a barrel of fish, in the comfort of his living room

Typhoid Mary
MARY MALLON, (1869-1938) known as Typhoid Mary; though herself healthy, she is a carrier of typhoid and, employed as a cook, infects 22, one of whom dies

Tuberculosis Sufferer
Diagram to show how tuberculosis manifests itself in the body of a young girl

Advert for Foots Safty Bath Cabinets 1912
Folding cabinet used in your own room, with hot air vapour, perfumed and medicated. 1912

Horses being X-Rayed
A horse being x-rayed at the Royal Veterinary College, Camden, London, using portable x-ray apparatus, which has proved invaluable in the treatment of animal ailments

Tuberculosis Bacillus
Bacillus of tuberculosis, discovered by Koch, 1884

Measles Compared
The left boy has MEASLES (rougeole), the middle one SCARLET FEVER (scarlatine), the right SMALLPOX (petite verole volante) Can you spot the difference ?

Bacillus of leprosy discovered by Hansen, 1877

Mr. Vernon-Ward's Treatment Salons
A photograph of the interior entrance hall which leads to Mr. Vernon-Ward's treatment salons, at Vere Street. The medical establishment had some fame for combatting obesity via fat reduction

Morocco - Chemist with his stall
A Native traditional practitioner of ritual medicine with a variety of dead animals, used to cure all manner of ills and ailments Date: circa 1930s

A touch of gout - an elderly gentleman mops his brow whilst his wife and young daughter attend to him Date: Nineteenth century

Vaccinating against smallpox in a street in Paris Date: 1893

A gouty invalid angrily rings for his manservant, presumably to fetch him some more port! Date: 18th century

RABIES/BITTEN/LIS/1874
At La Rochette, three country people, bitten by a rabid wolf, die in agony. Date: 1874

Patent Electropathic Battery Belt for men and women

Advert for Harness Electropathic Corset Belts 1895
Every man & woman in search of heath & strength, all sufferers from disorders of the nerves, stomach, liver or kidneys should procure and wear. Date: 1895

CRUIKSHANK: CHOLIC
A gang of impish demons torment the Cholic Date: 1819

MAN WITH GOITRE AND SON
A man afflicted with a goitre, with his cretin son Date: circa 1880

Medicine - 17th century Quack Doctor
Here you may be cured ! - a 17th century quack stands beside his counter, strewn with wonderful potions and elixirs to cure all ailments Date: circa 1670

MAN WITH THE FLU
A man (actually the arctic explorer Sir John Ross) puts his feet up over the fireplace and has a hot toddy to ward off the flu. Date: circa 1850

LONG WORM
A tapeworm taken from a patient in Paris by Dr Nicolas ?Antry on 9th June 1698 which measured 4 fathoms long before it broke off! Date: 1698

TYPHUS BACILLUS
Typhus bacillus, discovered by Eberth, 1880, and studied by Gaffky, 1884 - - left, infected intestine - right, culture

Nils Rosen Von Ros
NILS ROSEN VON ROSENSTEIN Swedish nobleman and professor at Uppsala, medical specialising in childrens ailments

GOUT
Diagram to show how various parts of the body are affected by the inflammatory symptoms of gout

Influenza / Fumigator / 1900
Advertisement for " Sanitas" fumigator, for the treatment of influenza and other lung and throat infections

Cholera Vibrio
Vibrio (or vibrion) of cholera, discovered by Koch, 1883

Rabies / Bitten / Petit J
A rabid and hydrophobic dog causes chaos in a French barbershop

Mesmer Baquet
Mesmers octagonal baquet, showing how eight patients could sit round it and be cured of 8 different ailments simultaneously, from hydropsis to the stone

Advert for Electropathic Battery Belt 1885
Electropathic Battery Belt, restorer of impaired vital energy and its unvarying success. 1885

Advert for Harness Electropathic Corset Belts 1885
Patent harnesses for men and women, effectual remedy for illnesses, with testimonials. 1885

Advert for Harness Electropathic corset belts 1888
Harness Electropathic belt treatment. 1888

Advert for Harness Electropathic Corset Belts 1886
Heath restored by means of mild continuous currents of electricity (without shock) generated by wearing

Advert for Harness Electropathic Corset Belts 1892
Seeing is Believing! Harness electropathic corset belts, cures thousands of sufferers without the aid of poisonous drugs or quark nostrums. 1892

Advert for Dr Carter Moffats electric body belt 1893
Dr Carter Moffats electric body belt, scientifically tested and guaranteed genuine. 1893

Advert for Luxurious thermal bath cabinet 1902
It opens the 7, 000, 000 pores, and sweats out all poisons. Cures all disease without medicine. 1902

Advert for Foots patent cabinet bath 1902
Foots patent cabinet bath, used in the private of your home, benefits of vapour, medicated, perfumed, or oxygen baths, claims to keep blood pure, prevent sickness, stopping colds, curing Rheumatism

The Dispensary at the London Hospital, Whitechapel
Patients with a variety of ailments being administered medicine at the Dispensary at the London Hospital in Whitechapel, East London in 1888. Date: 1888

Advert for Dr. Scotts electric hair brush 1881
Dr. Scott s, (George Augustus Scott), electric hair brush made from pure bristles, no wires, supposedly producing an electric current

Advert for Harness Electropathic Belt 1889
Health restored by means of mild continuous currents of electricity generated (without shock) by wearing Harness Electropathic Belt, thousands have been treated

Advert for Harness Electropathic Corset Belts 1889
They cure nervous weakness, sleeplessness, neuralgia, debility, rheumatic affections, liver and kidney disorders, internal weakness and hysteria. 1889

Advert for Harness Electropathic corset belts 1891
Advert for Harness Electropathic corset belts no taking poisonous drugs or quack nostrums. Claims to cure all rheumatic and nervous affections. 1891

Advert for Harness electropathic corset belts 1887
Advert for Harness electropathic corset belts no taking poisonous drugs, for ladies and gentlemen, claims to cure a variety of ailments from nevous affections, depression, sleeplessness

Christmas card in the shape of medicines -- Seidlitz Powders and Liver Pills (back). (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Greetings card in the shape of medicines
Greetings card in the shape of a bottle of medicine (labelled black draught) and a box of little blue pills. circa 1890s

Tense, Nervous Headache?
A young woman lies in bed with an awful headache or migrane. Date: 1960s

Advert for Homocea, babies medicine 1894
Homocea touches the spot in croup and all similar ailments Available from Hooper, Chemist, King William Street, London. 1894

Rickets Patient
A child afflicted with rickets. Date: circa 1870

EPILEPSY
Diagram to show an unconscious victim of a strong epilectic attack Date: 1883

Diagram / Diabetes / 1883
Diagram to show the damage inflicted on the organs of the body during the final stages of diabetes Date: 1883

Roux Treatment / Diphtheri
A young child being treated for diphtheria by Dr. Roux (a French physician and bacteriologist) Date: 1894

Advert for Electropathic & Zander Institute 1892
Electropathic treatment showing the interior of a private consulting and treatment room in Oxford Street, the comfortable Harness Belt for men and women that gives support

Advert for Electropathic Battery Belt 1892
Mr. C. B Harness the president of the Institute and the other officers of the Company, may consulted free of charge on all matters relating to health and the application of curative electricity

Advert for Harness Electropathic Belt 1892
Comfortable to wear and guaranteed, the Harness Electropathic Belt, with a mild continuous current of electricity which cannot fail to invigorate the debilitated constitution. 1892

Advert for Dr Carter Moffats electric body belt 1891
Dr Carter Moffats electric body belt, magneto-electric battery Co. 1891

Advertisement for Beechams Powders - Act like magic! Suitable for the treatment of chills, colds and flu. Date: 1930

Typhus Sufferers in Kniagin, Russia
Bedridden Typhus sufferers in the Russian provence of Kniagin. Date: 1891 - 1892

Train Transporting Typhoid Sufferers
A Russian train being used as a temporary hospital specialising in treatment for patients suffering from Typhoid fever. Date: 1920

Old Mrs Snooksons Husband view on his drinking ailment
" Well, hows your Husband, Mrs Snookson

Christmas card in the shape of medicines
Christmas card in the shape of a bottle of medicine and boxes of pills for various ailments. circa 1890s

Medical / Ailments / Rickets
The terrible body deformation caused by rickets. Date: circa 1870

Hammerblow Cure
In the Correges, France, there is a tradition that a child can be cured of certain ailments if laid on a black- smiths anvil and a mighty blow struck close to its head. Date: 1901

Lourdes - Pilgrims Shelter
Lourdes, France - the interior of the pilgrims shelter

Advertisement for the doctor James Hallett
Undated advertisement for the " doctor" James Hallett, " the original curer of all diseases", listing all the diseases and ailments he is able to cure by herbs and ointments

Twisted Spine
19-year old Mary Elizabeth Houghtons twisted back excites the interest of surgeons

Yellow Fever Victim
A yellow fever victim

Summer Solstice
Fires were lit at solstices and equinoxes by the ancient Germans : the fires cured their ailments, and the ashes scattered in the fields ensured fertility

Electropathic belt
Advertisement from 1885 for the Pall Mall Electric Associations Electropathic Belt

Dr. Scotts electric corset
Advertisement from 1886 for Dr

Gladstone wearing an electropathic belt
Advertisement from 1886 for the Medical Battery Companys Electropathic Belt, featuring a caricature of William Gladstone, Prime Minister wielding an axe and wearing the belt

Francisque Crotte / 1901
Francois Crottes electrical cure for TB being demonstrated on a female sufferer

ST. VITUS DANCE / C16TH
Sufferers from St. Vitus Dance going on a pilgrimage to the Church of St. Willibrod, near Luxembourg

About to Sneeze
A smart gentleman clutches his handkerchief as he is about to sneeze

Rashful Youth
This unfortunate youth has come out in a rash though his face is spared : we don t know what is afflicting him, and I dare say the doctors don t know either

Leper (Munster)
A 16th century leper walks with a clapper, to warn people of his approach

The Hypohondriac / 1883
A hypochondriac sits at his desk surrounded by potions and advertisements for various cures

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