Let's Have a Funny Pic Thread! Mk XXIX

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I'm guessing that's either a knockoff (or a modern parody) of Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. There's a folk song about Lydia Pinkham's pills, which the Scaffold (featuring Paul McCartney's brother Michael) covered in the 60's, with some changes to make it "original."

Kind of ballsy that the poster is warning people not to accept substitutes, when the product being advertised is a substitute.

Anyhow.....








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Tralfaz said:
I'm guessing that's either a knockoff (or a modern parody) of Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. There's a folk song about Lydia Pinkham's pills, which the Scaffold (featuring Paul McCartney's brother Michael) covered in the 60's, with some changes to make it "original."

Kind of ballsy that the poster is warning people not to accept substitutes, when the product being advertised is a substitute.

Anyhow.....








Yes, I know I'm tedious.
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Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People

Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People was a late 19th to early 20th-century patent medicine containing ferrous sulfate and magnesium sulfate. It was produced by Dr. Williams Medicine Company, the trading arm of G. T. Fulford & Company. It was claimed to cure chorea, referenced frequently in newspaper headlines as "St. Vitus' Dance," as well as "locomotor ataxia, partial paralyxia, seistica, neuralgia rheumatism, nervous headache, the after-effects of la grippe, palpitation of the heart, pale and sallow complexions, all forms of weakness in male or female."
 
Rick 381 said:
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People

Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People was a late 19th to early 20th-century patent medicine containing ferrous sulfate and magnesium sulfate. It was produced by Dr. Williams Medicine Company, the trading arm of G. T. Fulford & Company. It was claimed to cure chorea, referenced frequently in newspaper headlines as "St. Vitus' Dance," as well as "locomotor ataxia, partial paralyxia, seistica, neuralgia rheumatism, nervous headache, the after-effects of la grippe, palpitation of the heart, pale and sallow complexions, all forms of weakness in male or female."
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Not even any snake oil? :mad:
 
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