Welcome to the world of pain and futility! So it looks to modern eyes, anyway. There's very little in the ads that seems to do anything, despite the authoritative endorsements by the Leading Medical Men of the day. You imagine them all with their pointy beards and bald heads, nodding as a colleague explains the benefits of cow phlegm or Faradic juice.

I'll spare you the stories, which are dense and tedious, and show you the ads, which are dense and tedious.

 

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