Cured Collection

Craster, Northumberland
Craster, a small Northumberland village, famous for its home-cured kippers

Woman Butcher 1920S
A young British female butcher proudly displays her freshly slaughtered pigs, hanging from their hooks. Date: 1920s

Surgery Cures Stupidity
SATIRE:RESULTS OF ETHER - surgery as a cure-all: young mans stupidity cured by replacing straw head- stuffing with a brain!

The benefits of taking the water at Bad Wildungen, Germany
Comic illustration of the wonderful benefits to a ladys urinary tract (!) having taken the water at Bad Wildungen - a German therapeutic spa Town with springs that bring forth water containing iron

Central Stores & Post Office, High Street, Chalford, Glos
Central Stores and Post Office, High Street, Chalford, Gloucestershire. Date: circa 1909

DE PREDIS, Cristoforo (1440-1486). Stories of Saint Joachim, Saint Anne, Virgin Mary, Jesus, the Baptist and the End of the World. 1476

Naaman the Leper Healed
The Syrian commander Naaman is a leper, but he is cured when he is sent by the king to bathe in the waters of Israel

Jesus meets a patient cured by him and says: now you are healed and sin no more. Miniature. Codex Predis. Quattrocento Renaissance (XV century). Royal Library. Turin. Italy

Taberna near the fountain of Mercury, VI. 5, Pompeii
Thermolopium or taberna near the fountain of Mercury, VI.5, Pompeii. A man cooks food at a stove, while a women serves a customer using scales

DRINK HABIT CURED 1919
Drink habit conquered in three days claims an advertisement for a self- improvement book by Edward J. Woods of London. Date: 1919

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

Method of curing anchovies in Sicily 1834
In the Mediterranean Sea, the anchovy is chiefly taken at night; large fires are lighted on rafts, which attracts the fish, engraving showing men a cellars packing anchovies in barrels in salt

SURGERY CURES INFIDELITY
SATIRE:RESULTS OF ETHER - surgery as a cure-all: infidelity cured by replacing much-pierced heart Date: 1847

SURGERY CURES STUPIDITY
SATIRE:RESULTS OF ETHER - surgery as a cure-all: young mans stupidity cured by replacing straw head- stuffing with a brain! Date: 1847

Duttons Brewery Advertisement - Oh Be Joyful - Strong Ale, Blackburn, near, Lancashire, England. How I cured the Flu Date: 1910s

Advertisment for diet pills
Advert for Trilene diet pills with the tag line Fat People can be cured 1913

Easter. Jesus went to the pool of Bethesda (Jerusalem) where there were many sick. An angel stirred the water and the first to be launched, was healing. Codex of Predis (1476). Royal Library. Turin

Advert for Carbolic smoke ball 1892
Carbolic smoke ball, Hay Fever positively cured and prevented. Testimonials include It acted like magic! It is simply invaluable!. 1892

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

Harriet Martineau
HARRIET MARTINEAU writer on social and political subjects who was cured of an illness through mesmerism. with her autograph Date: 1802 - 1876

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

Naaman and Elisha
Naaman, king of Syria (at war with Israel, of course) is cured of his leprosy when his Israeli captive advises him to consult prophet Elisha, who recommends bathing in Jordan

Tobit recovers his sight - Tobit 11. circa 1690

The possessed man healed by Jesus - Matthew 9. circa 1688

The healing of Naaman - 2 Kings. circa 1690

Jesus curing the man of the palsy - Matthew 9. circa 1688

Lourdes, France - Bureau des constatations (Office of Medical Observations of Lourdes). Checking the validity on a claim of miraculous healing. Date: circa 1908

Jesus tells the Kings officer to come back home where he will find his son cured. Codex of Predis (1476). Royal Library. Turin. Italy

The son of the centurion, healed by Jesus, get out of bed. Codex of Predis (1476). Royal Library. Turin. Italy

Jesus said to the paralytic, Arise and walk. Codex of Predis (1476). Royal Library. Turin. Italy

Pinks Potted Bloater, Great Yarmouth
Pinks Potted Bloater, a most delicious relish of altogether superior quality. Showing the product being prepared by steam machinery from very highly cured Yarmouth Bloaters. 1888

Flat feet remedy, illustration by William Heath Robinson
A new method of curing flat feet and restoring the natural arch to the pedal extremities, illustration by William Heath Robinson. Credit must appear as: Courtesy of Mrs J. C

Madeira, Camara de Lobos - Fishing boat - drying fish
Portugal, Madeira, Camara de Lobos: Fishing boat with dry fish. Date: 2013

Cured horses leaving a depot, Western Front, WW1
Cured horses leaving a depot after hospital treatment on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Hannah Thatcher
HANNAH THATCHER girl born deaf and dumb, until Mr Wright came along and cured her, since when she resides with him in Princes Street, Hanover Square, London. Date: CIRCA 1823

Wiltshire Bacon - Ancient Custom of Burning the Pig (which thankfully seems to have already been dispatched by the farmer/butcher on left). Date: 1908

Syphilis... six out of ten cured because they did not wait
Syphilis.... six out of ten cured because they did not wait too long. Poster promoting early treatment for syphilis, showing cured and sick men. Date between 1936 and 1941

Gonorrhea causes blindness - arthritis, invalidism and misery It can be prevented and cured : For examination and free pamphlets go to your doctor or Dept. of Health clinic

Discharged as cured. Illustration shows a man labeled Consumer walking with crutches labeled Free Oil and Free Hides, and heavily wrapped with bandages labeled Free Valerianic, Free Cerium

Early is the watchword for cancer control Early diagnosis, early treatment will save many lives : Early cancer can be cured

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

Lear / Nonsense / Prague
There was an Old Person of Prague, who was suddenly seized with the Plague; But they gave his some butter, which caused him to mutter, and cured that Old person of Prague

Lear / Nonsense / The West
There was an Old Man of the West, who never could get any rest; so they set him to spin, on his nose and chin, which cured that Old Man of the West

Description of a Lourdes cure
A description on the front of a Lourdes postcard describing a cure witnessed by the author, James Gardener, sent to his daughter who was a nun

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

French Mental Patients
Three of Voisins patients at the Salpetriere, Paris, cured with morphine - Mme Bau.. before and after treatment; Mme Fal.. in a state; Mme Gog... before / after

A Laudable Partnership or Souls and Bodies cured without loss of Time

Cholera Victim 1832
A cholera victim at the temporary hospital de la reserve Grenier a l Abondance, Paris, is cheered if not cured by a visit by la comtesse de L.... M

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