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A Cure For What Ails You Poster
In the old, old days, medicines were referred to as nostrum remedium which is Latin for "our remedy." During the Victorian era, there were quite a few medical compounds of questionable effectiveness that were made available to the unsuspecting public either through a doctor's prescription, over-the-counter, or the ever-popular snake-oil salesman.
Many folks also believed (and probably still do), that "the more bitter the medicine, the better the cure," which was why so many medicines tasted quite foul.
Many of the patent medicines were never patented, mostly so the purveyors could avoid having to reveal what was really in those medicines, the contents being either hazardous, addictive or simply nothing more than colored water.
During the 19-century, medicines were sold under colorful names with loud packaging and ads that made boastful, dubious claims of the medicine's healing properties. This poster pays homage to those cures.
This poster is 17 inches wide by 22 inches high, generous black ink lushly
printed on parchment stock.
PLEASE NOTE: This poster image was hand drawn by Madame Talbot using nothing more than pen and ink on illustration board.
After the poster was completed, it was taken to a real printer and printed on an offset printing press.
Absolutely no computers were used in the making of this poster, all of it was drawn entirely by hand.
The copyright notice is on the website image only and not on the printed poster.
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