I love looking at the old advertisements in the early Maryland Medical Journals both for their content and for their design. It’s funny how shocking some of them seem now. Ads for cocaine and heroin as well as numerous alcoholic preparations abound!
Here are some that caught my eye.
Malt Nutrine by Anheuser Busch… Also known as liquid bread, or beer!
Pepto Mangan Gude – helped stimulate the appetite and build red blood cells.
Cocaine. Nice to know it’s pure.
Beer & Rye Whiskey
The design on these is really amazing, especially when you realize they’re engraved at size.
Antiseptics are new to the field in the 1890’s.
It’s fun to imagine the physicians going through the city in their phaetons.
He can’t wait until he can chase her again!
Lots of ads for drunks and inebriates
Chattolanee Water… Greenspring Valley
Most of the bound sets of journals have the advertisements removed, so it was fun to find a full set of unbound Maryland Medical Journals.
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