Cures Collection

Lourdes - The statue in the Grotto
Statue of Our Lady of Lourdes, France in the Grotto at this sacred Christian site

Lourdes - The Grotto
Statue of Our Lady of Lourdes in the Grotto, with believers praying beneath and hanging crutches testament to the miraculous cures achievers by those of faith at this sacred Christian site

Ale Cures the Flu
Two men, one in a flat cap, the other in a bowler hat, drinking glasses of ale, while looking at the punning pub sign: Try Our Old Ale: knocks the L out of FLU

Woolleys Chemists labels
Woolleys Ltd Chemists, bottle labels, Brimstone and Treacle Tablets, Winter Lung and Chest Wafer and Special Menthol Tablets 1908 Date: 1908

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

Beppu, Japan. The city was founded on April 1, 1924, and is famous for its onsen (hot springs), which are regarded as sacred

Burmese advert in Chinese for Tiger Headache Cure
Burmese advert for Tiger Trademark Headache Cure - Take immediately for headache and tooth for a fast cure. Produced by Eng Aun Tong (Yong An) in Rangoon Burma (Yangon)

Days Black Drink - Cures for animals
Advert for Days Black Drink, Cures for Horses, Colts, Cattle and Sheep. 1893

Advert for Homocea 1897
Homocea brand, with toilet soap, embrocation and nursery powder, to help with the cure of oyclists, athletes, pedestrians, soreness, cures tired, swollen feet and rheumatism. Date: 1897

Charlatan or Quack Doctor - 17th century England
A Charlatan peddling patent medicines to gullible 17th century purchsers - pictured here with a monkey assistant. 17th century

Allopathy - Homeopathy - Hydropathy - the options available in the 1850s Date: 1853

Natural Hot Spring Bath at Bursa, Turkey
circa 1910s

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

Surgery cures ugliness 1847
SATIRE:RESULTS OF ETHER - surgery as a cure-all: young woman patient exchanges ugly head for pretty one Date: 1847

Shaker Extract of Roots (Seigels Syrup) - cures Dyspepsia
Two healthy children, who have obviously been taking their Shaker Extract of Roots (Seigels Syrup) - cures Indigestion and Dyspepsia. A. J. White - Proprietor, 168 Duane Street, New York, USA

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

Brazil - Sao Paulo - Serpentarium of the Instituto Butantan, a Brazilian biomedical research centre affiliated to the Sao Paulo State Secretary of Health

Ethiopia, Africa - Bloodletting
Remedies: Bloodletting (after a razor has drawn blood) using a cow horn. Date: circa 1910s

Lourdes - The Basillica and the Grotto
A composite postcard (unusual) depicting the Rosary Basilica of the Sanctuary of our Lady at Lourdes (top) and the Statue of Our Lady of Lourdes in the Grotto

Nicolas Philippe Ledru, known as Comus, quack dotor
Undated head and shoulders pencil sketch of Nicolas Philippe Ledru, known as " Comus", " quack" doctor. HPG/8/1/1 (i) "

Daisy Headache Cure
Daisy headache cure : cures splitting headaches in a phew minutes

Advert for Harness Electric Battery Belt 1884
Harness Electric Battery Belt, claiming the most effectual remedy for rheumatism, gout, neuralgia, deafness, headache, paralyss, nervous debility and other nervous muscular and functional maladies

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

Advert for Mrs. Adair, Genesh Patent chin strap 1905
Genesh Patent chin strap, cures double chin, and takes away the line from nose to month. Strong straps to cure snoring and Domino straps to cure puffiness under eyes and takes away lines

Advert for Harness Electropathic Corset Belts 1886
Heath restored by means of mild continuous currents of electricity (without shock) generated by wearing. Thousands have been successfully treated for nervous exhaustion, brain-fag, melancholia

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

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

Jesus cures the blind man - John 9. circa 1688

French Railways Promo card - Chatel-Guyon Spa Retreat, specialising in intestinal cures. Date: circa 1909

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 Electropathic Belt 1882
Electropathic Belt for gentlemen and ladies, consists of a series of constant current electric generators, which are constantly in action while the belt is being worn. 1882

Advert for Electropathic Belt of Life 1882
Professor Barkers Belt of Life for women and men, helps stimulate, invigorate strengthen and exhilarate. 1882

Advert for Patent Electropathic socks 1882
Patent Electropathic socks, simply put inside the shoes or boots, and after a short time a continued and most beneficial warmth creating a bodily comfort

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 J. W Rowe & Co. electrical massage apparatus 1902
Heath in every home! by using Rogers consoidated electrical massage and medical apparatus. Claims to cures lots of alliaments. 1902

Advert for Dr. Scotts electric plasters 1889
They who suffer ache and pain, need suffer never more again. With the new invention Dr. Scotts electric plaster. Claiming to cure many illnesses

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 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

Hervier Cures
Pere HERVIER magnetises a hysteric in church Date: 1784

Hells Cures
Maximilien HELL effects cures using magnets, at Vienna Date: circa 1772

Advert for Reduca chin-strap helmet 1933
Regain a youthful chin-line, nothing betrays a womans age more definitely than a double-chin, yet this can be comfortably removed (or prevented) with the new Reduca chin-strap helmet. 1933

Peter cures ?. Date: circa late 19th century

Cartoon, Attractive Holiday Resorts, August 1914, WW1. Showing suggested posters for advertising the latest attractions at continental holiday resorts, including boating on the canal at Kiel

Advertisement for Horsfords Acid Phosphate
Horsfords Acid Phosphate, for mental & physical exhaustion, dyspepsia. It makes a delicious drink with water and sugar only. Rumford Chemical works

Use Tarrants Seltzer Aperient, to regulate the stomach, the liver, the bowls, to sure indigestion, and biliousness constipation

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