Some of the best ads I have seen fall into the category of medical quackery. Let's view a few over the next few months. The oldest one I have is this one from 1870.
Titled Why Will Ye Doubt?...Earthly Blessings it guarantees you that Dr. Leonidas Hamilton can cure just about anything.
To back up his claim, he published a book a year later titled:
THE DISCOVERIES AND UNPARALLELED EXPERIENCE OF PROF. R. LEONIDAS HAMILTON, M.D., WITH REGARD TO THE NATURE AND TREATMENT OF DISEASES OF THE LIVER, LUNGS, BLOOD... CONTAINING ALSO, A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF HIS LIFE WITH THE COMMON SENSE THEORY OF DISEASES AND THE EVIDENCE OF HIS WONDERFUL CURES.
Dr. Hamilton's expertise in curing you of absolutely everything was attested to by a whole page of people no one knew but surely existed somewhere.
Like many doctors of the day, Leonidas attributed ailments to catarrh. You could have catarrh everywhere. But don't worry, just writer the good doctor in New York and he will be there to help you. He seemed to specialize in liver ailments, but I think he was agreeable to treating anything you thought you had.
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Thanks for stopping by. Next time, let's look at the 1880 Thomas Edison Patent Medicine Ad and the Polyform Lawsuit. Yes, that Thomas Edison.
In the early 1900's it was decided that baldness could be cured by increasing the blood flow to the scalp. Enter The Evans Vacuum Cap. It was as you can see by this 1905 advertisement: the GUARANTEED Hair Grower.
Here is a great picture of the machine on the fellow's head. The cap seems pretty secure. And we can see by this ad that women can enjoy the results of a good vacuum cap too. 
All of these, are of course, for sale in my shop: Old Ad Store
