On a Maxfield Parish poster: Even an artist like Maxfield Parish did advertisements. Here he does an ad for a product called No-To-Bac that purportedly cured tobacco addiction.
On a flat, unnumbered, unlabeled case containing various ephemera like early doctor’s calling cards with their portraits on them: [pointing at a swarthy mean looking guy with a mustache who practiced, according to his card, on West 14th Street in New York:] Isn’t he scary looking? Would you let him treat you?
On addiction cures: One of the most popular was one developed by a Dr. Leslie E. Keeley. His cure dealt with addiction to narcotics, alcohol, and tobacco. A particularly insidious group of products were those narcotics that substituted a higher dose of opium or morphine for the normal dose the addict was taking. But you can see the beginnings of an AA approach in some of these early anti-addiction cures.
On the evils of quackery: Finally, a group of writers started writing, books mostly and pamphlets to a lesser degree, exposing this charlatan doctors and cures. There began a movement to expose these products and their purveyors as the frauds they were. But the Pure Food and Drug Act wasn’t passed by Congress until 1906. And of course even today the FDA can’t keep up with these pills and potions to cure you of this and that being offered in the back of magazines or on the internet.
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Jeschke Jadi
Auction 151
Saturday, April 27, 2024Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.Jeschke Jadi
Auction 151
Saturday, April 27, 2024Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.Jeschke Jadi
Auction 151
Saturday, April 27, 2024Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.Jeschke Jadi
Auction 151
Saturday, April 27, 2024Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
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