Ailments Collection (page 2)

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?" " O! Es very bad, poor ear Es such a martyr to Delerium Tremins." !!

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

Breton Pardon at Baud
A Breton pardon at Baud, where the waters of the Fontaine de la Clarte are said to protect the eyes or even heal eye ailments Date: 1925

Lourdes - Pilgrims Shelter
Lourdes, France - the interior of the pilgrims shelter. Believers line the interior of the building, seated in bath chairs

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. Claiming to cure a wide range of ailments, including rheumatism, indigestion, lumbago, sciatica

Dr. Scotts electric corset
Advertisement from 1886 for Dr. Scotts Electric Corset, considered a great boon for the delicate and able to cure all manner of ailments including palpitation, nervousness, hysteria

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

Bubonic Plague Bacillus
Bacillus of bubonic plague - smear and culture : discovered by Yersin at Hong- Kong, 1894

Rheumatic Suffering
Advertisement for Urodonal rheumatism treatment showing a man in excruciating pain as his joints are attacked by three little dwarves or gnomes

Suffering Chilblains
An unfortunate man rubs ointment on his chilblained feet, while his wife looks on sympathetically

Medical / Ailments / Gout
A man with gout wears a long house coat, matching soft hat and one pointed slipper. The boys and the farmer wear country clothes albeit of different social classes

Epileptic Attack
An epileptic suffers an attack in the street

Child with Smallpox
Child with smallpox

Smallpox / Superstition
Yuo-hoa-long: the God who happily terminates the disease

Street of the Lepers, in Harrar, Ethiopia

Whooping Cough / 1883
Usually starts to affect children from around the age of seven, and according to the author, affects girls more that boys

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