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Background imageAilments Collection: Carbolic smoke ball

Carbolic smoke ball
An advertisment placed by the Carbolic Smoke Ball Company for the carbolic smoke ball, a cure for all types of ailments

Background imageAilments Collection: Carbolic Smoke Ball / 1893

Carbolic Smoke Ball / 1893
Advertisement for The Carbolic Smoke Ball Co. which claimed to offer a cure for a wide variety of ailments. This led to a court case on grounds of deception & a landmark ruling

Background imageAilments Collection: Gout (Bunbury)

Gout (Bunbury)
No need for the sufferer from GOUT to wait till he gets to Hell - the devil gives him a foretaste of the torments that await him

Background imageAilments Collection: SYPHILIS / 1883

SYPHILIS / 1883
Diagram to show the rash which appears in the second stage of syphilis

Background imageAilments Collection: Gout Devil Bites 1799

Gout Devil Bites 1799
A little devil sinks his teeth into the swollen foot of a gout sufferer

Background imageAilments Collection: Enos Cockerel

Enos Cockerel
Enos Fruit Salts, a popular cure for digestive ailments throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries

Background imageAilments Collection: Valentine Greatrakes

Valentine Greatrakes
Irish healer who, after a dream in 1662, discovered that he could heal many ailments simply by passing his hands and stroking the patient

Background imageAilments Collection: Advert for Foot's Bath Cabinet 1924

Advert for Foot's Bath Cabinet 1924
Hot-air vapour to open up the pours, cleansing the skin, claiming to preventing colds, influenza, rheumatism, liver and kidney complaints and skin affections. Date: 1924

Background imageAilments Collection: Anti-Flu Masks

Anti-Flu Masks
A man and a woman wearing anti-flu masks. These masks cover the nose and mouth and are designed to prevent germs spreading. They may work but they look very curious!

Background imageAilments Collection: Gout Man Fishes at Home

Gout Man Fishes at Home
Unable to go fishing due to his painful gout, a sufferer casts his rod into a barrel of fish, in the comfort of his living room

Background imageAilments Collection: Typhoid Mary

Typhoid Mary
MARY MALLON, (1869-1938) known as Typhoid Mary; though herself healthy, she is a carrier of typhoid and, employed as a cook, infects 22, one of whom dies

Background imageAilments Collection: Tuberculosis Sufferer

Tuberculosis Sufferer
Diagram to show how tuberculosis manifests itself in the body of a young girl

Background imageAilments Collection: Advert for Foots Safty Bath Cabinets 1912

Advert for Foots Safty Bath Cabinets 1912
Folding cabinet used in your own room, with hot air vapour, perfumed and medicated. 1912

Background imageAilments Collection: Horses being X-Rayed

Horses being X-Rayed
A horse being x-rayed at the Royal Veterinary College, Camden, London, using portable x-ray apparatus, which has proved invaluable in the treatment of animal ailments

Background imageAilments Collection: Tuberculosis Bacillus

Tuberculosis Bacillus
Bacillus of tuberculosis, discovered by Koch, 1884

Background imageAilments Collection: Measles Compared

Measles Compared
The left boy has MEASLES (rougeole), the middle one SCARLET FEVER (scarlatine), the right SMALLPOX (petite verole volante) Can you spot the difference ?

Background imageAilments Collection: 1950S 1960S Bald Man Sneezing Cold Flu Sick Sickness Handkerchief To Nose Sneeze Allergy Allergies Men Illness

1950S 1960S Bald Man Sneezing Cold Flu Sick Sickness Handkerchief To Nose Sneeze Allergy Allergies Men Illness

Background imageAilments Collection: Bacillus of leprosy discovered by Hansen, 1877

Bacillus of leprosy discovered by Hansen, 1877

Background imageAilments Collection: CT scan of brain showing multiple sclerosis

CT scan of brain showing multiple sclerosis

Background imageAilments Collection: Mr. Vernon-Ward's Treatment Salons

Mr. Vernon-Ward's Treatment Salons
A photograph of the interior entrance hall which leads to Mr. Vernon-Ward's treatment salons, at Vere Street. The medical establishment had some fame for combatting obesity via fat reduction

Background imageAilments Collection: Morocco - Chemist with his stall

Morocco - Chemist with his stall
A Native traditional practitioner of ritual medicine with a variety of dead animals, used to cure all manner of ills and ailments Date: circa 1930s

Background imageAilments Collection: A touch of gout - an elderly gentleman mops his brow whilst his wife and young daughter attend to him Date

A touch of gout - an elderly gentleman mops his brow whilst his wife and young daughter attend to him Date: Nineteenth century

Background imageAilments Collection: Vaccinating against smallpox in a street in Paris Date: 1893

Vaccinating against smallpox in a street in Paris Date: 1893

Background imageAilments Collection: A gouty invalid angrily rings for his manservant

A gouty invalid angrily rings for his manservant, presumably to fetch him some more port! Date: 18th century

Background imageAilments Collection: RABIES/BITTEN/LIS/1874

RABIES/BITTEN/LIS/1874
At La Rochette, three country people, bitten by a rabid wolf, die in agony. Date: 1874

Background imageAilments Collection: Deformed woman of Prague, 1596 (engraving)

Deformed woman of Prague, 1596 (engraving)
7186268 Deformed woman of Prague, 1596 (engraving) by Austrian School, (16th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Deformed woman of Prague, 1596)

Background imageAilments Collection: Peste de Jaffa (engraving)

Peste de Jaffa (engraving)
7179428 Peste de Jaffa (engraving) by French School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Peste de Jaffa)

Background imageAilments Collection: Outbreak of the plague in London, 1641 (woodcut)

Outbreak of the plague in London, 1641 (woodcut)
7201737 Outbreak of the plague in London, 1641 (woodcut) by English School, (17th century) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Outbreak of the plague in London, 1641)

Background imageAilments Collection: View of the manner of burying the dead Bodies at Holy-well mount during the dreadful Plague in 1665 (engraving)

View of the manner of burying the dead Bodies at Holy-well mount during the dreadful Plague in 1665 (engraving)
3103756 View of the manner of burying the dead Bodies at Holy-well mount during the dreadful Plague in 1665 (engraving) by English School

Background imageAilments Collection: Rabbit corpses killed by chickens cholera microbe

Rabbit corpses killed by chickens cholera microbe
XEE4134466 Rabbit corpses killed by chickens cholera microbe. Experience of Mme widow Pommery in Champagne. (From a phtograph of Mr. Trumpet and information communicated by Mr. L. Pommery)

Background imageAilments Collection: Cheerful Agony, the American banker Walker poisoned by mistake incurably

Cheerful Agony, the American banker Walker poisoned by mistake incurably
2815549 Cheerful Agony, the American banker Walker poisoned by mistake incurably, dies between music and flowers (Colour Litho) by Beltrame

Background imageAilments Collection: Portrait of Robert Koch in his laboratory (engraving, 19th century)

Portrait of Robert Koch in his laboratory (engraving, 19th century)
LRI4670026 Portrait of Robert Koch in his laboratory (engraving, 19th century) by Unknown Artist

Background imageAilments Collection: Saint Thecla Praying for the Plague-Stricken, 1758-59 (oil on canvas)

Saint Thecla Praying for the Plague-Stricken, 1758-59 (oil on canvas)
1127651 Saint Thecla Praying for the Plague-Stricken, 1758-59 (oil on canvas) by Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista (Giambattista) (1696-1770); 81.3x44.8 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Background imageAilments Collection: A traveller in turban plays dead while attacked by a bear. 1811 (etching)

A traveller in turban plays dead while attacked by a bear. 1811 (etching)
7235861 A traveller in turban plays dead while attacked by a bear. 1811 (etching) by Howitt, Samuel (1756-1822); (add.info.: A traveller in turban plays dead while attacked by a bear)

Background imageAilments Collection: Bicocca degli Arcimboldi: 15th century fresco

Bicocca degli Arcimboldi: 15th century fresco
7240205 Bicocca degli Arcimboldi: 15th century fresco, detail of the cutting of fabrics and a dwarf (fresco) by Italian School

Background imageAilments Collection: A Country Vaccination (engraving)

A Country Vaccination (engraving)
7157365 A Country Vaccination (engraving) by Hornemann, Friedrich Adolph (1813-1890); Private Collection; (add.info.: A Country Vaccination)

Background imageAilments Collection: Prince and Princess of Wales laying the foundation stone of the London hospital

Prince and Princess of Wales laying the foundation stone of the London hospital
7173205 Prince and Princess of Wales laying the foundation stone of the London hospital, 1864 (chromolitho) by Johnson

Background imageAilments Collection: Artwork by Honore Daumier (1808-1879)

Artwork by Honore Daumier (1808-1879)
JEB4850225 Artwork by Honore Daumier (1808-1879). Charivari dates from 1864: Serie Actualites Paris influenza

Background imageAilments Collection: The skeleton of Death comes for a quack doctor. 1792. 1926 (engraving)

The skeleton of Death comes for a quack doctor. 1792. 1926 (engraving)
7234875 The skeleton of Death comes for a quack doctor. 1792

Background imageAilments Collection: An obese vet examines a sick cow at a dairy farm, Georgian era. 1831 (engraving)

An obese vet examines a sick cow at a dairy farm, Georgian era. 1831 (engraving)
7234795 An obese vet examines a sick cow at a dairy farm, Georgian era.1831 (engraving) by Rowlandson

Background imageAilments Collection: Heroism in an Italian steamer, a captain who drops into an infected hold to save two

Heroism in an Italian steamer, a captain who drops into an infected hold to save two
2815641 Heroism in an Italian steamer, a captain who drops into an infected hold to save two

Background imageAilments Collection: Les Soeurs de Lait (engraving)

Les Soeurs de Lait (engraving)
7194579 Les Soeurs de Lait (engraving) by Bostock, John (1808-1872) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Les Soeurs de Lait)

Background imageAilments Collection: Saint Macaire of Ghent rescuing pestiferes Saint Macaire is an 11th century Armenian monk

Saint Macaire of Ghent rescuing pestiferes Saint Macaire is an 11th century Armenian monk
JLJ4676193 Saint Macaire of Ghent rescuing pestiferes Saint Macaire is an 11th century Armenian monk. Painting by Jacob II van Oost (1637-1713) 1673 Sun

Background imageAilments Collection: Maids offer the days catch of fish and lobster to a gourmet. 1831 (engraving)

Maids offer the days catch of fish and lobster to a gourmet. 1831 (engraving)
7234808 Maids offer the days catch of fish and lobster to a gourmet.1831 (engraving) by Rowlandson

Background imageAilments Collection: An Allegorical Painting of Justice, c. 1630-1700 (oil on copper)

An Allegorical Painting of Justice, c. 1630-1700 (oil on copper)
7240809 An Allegorical Painting of Justice, c.1630-1700 (oil on copper) by Flemish School, (17th century); 45x30 cm; The Weston Park Foundation, Shropshire

Background imageAilments Collection: Wybrand Lolkes, the Dutch Dwarf and his wife. 1869 (lithograph)

Wybrand Lolkes, the Dutch Dwarf and his wife. 1869 (lithograph)
7232941 Wybrand Lolkes, the Dutch Dwarf and his wife. 1869 (lithograph) by Cooper, Robert (fl.1800-36); Private Collection; (add.info.: Wybrand Lolkes, the Dutch Dwarf, 1733-1790s, and his wife)

Background imageAilments Collection: John Valerius, born without hands or arms, 18th century. 1869 (lithograph)

John Valerius, born without hands or arms, 18th century. 1869 (lithograph)
7232982 John Valerius, born without hands or arms, 18th century. 1869 (lithograph) by Cooper, Robert (fl.1800-36); Private Collection; (add.info.: John Valerius, born without hands or arms)

Background imageAilments Collection: Miss Hawtin, born without arms, 18th century. 1869 (lithograph)

Miss Hawtin, born without arms, 18th century. 1869 (lithograph)
7232977 Miss Hawtin, born without arms, 18th century. 1869 (lithograph) by Cooper, Robert (fl.1800-36); Private Collection; (add.info.: Miss Hawtin, born without arms, 18th century)

Background imageAilments Collection: The skeleton of Death and the quack doctor. 1827 (engraving)

The skeleton of Death and the quack doctor. 1827 (engraving)
7233014 The skeleton of Death and the quack doctor. 1827 (engraving) by Dagley, Richard (c.1761-1841); Private Collection; (add.info.: The skeleton of Death and the quack doctor)

Background imageAilments Collection: Francis Trovillou, the Horned Man, 16th century. 1869 (lithograph)

Francis Trovillou, the Horned Man, 16th century. 1869 (lithograph)
7232973 Francis Trovillou, the Horned Man, 16th century. 1869 (lithograph) by Cooper, Robert (fl.1800-36); Private Collection; (add.info.: Francis Trovillou, the Horned Man)

Background imageAilments Collection: Madame Teresia, the Corsican Fairy, 1743-1790. 1869 (lithograph)

Madame Teresia, the Corsican Fairy, 1743-1790. 1869 (lithograph)
7232984 Madame Teresia, the Corsican Fairy, 1743-1790. 1869 (lithograph) by Cooper, Robert (fl.1800-36); Private Collection; (add.info.: Madame Maria Teresa, the Amazing Corsican Fairy)

Background imageAilments Collection: John Smith or Buckhorse, 18th century prizefighter. 1869 (lithograph)

John Smith or Buckhorse, 18th century prizefighter. 1869 (lithograph)
7232980 John Smith or Buckhorse, 18th century prizefighter. 1869 (lithograph) by Cooper, Robert (fl.1800-36); Private Collection; (add.info.: John Smith, better known by the name of Buckhorse)



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EDITORS COMMENTS

From the curious Carbolic Smoke Ball of 1893 to the infamous Gout Devil Bites in 1799, history is filled with peculiar remedies for various ailments. The past is a treasure trove of bizarre and sometimes dangerous attempts at finding relief. Take, for instance, the case of Bunbury and his gout - a condition that plagued many throughout time. In 1883, Syphilis was a grave concern, leading desperate individuals to seek unconventional treatments. Even renowned figures like Enos Cockerel and Valentine Greatrakes were believed to possess healing powers beyond explanation. As time progressed, new challenges emerged, such as the flu pandemic that prompted the use of anti-flu masks or Typhoid Mary's notorious role in spreading disease. Tuberculosis sufferers faced isolation and stigma due to their condition while others sought solace in unusual activities like "Gout Man Fishes at Home. " In an ever-evolving world seeking solutions for health issues, advertisements played their part too. One notable example was an advert from 1912 promoting Foots Safety Bath Cabinets as a means to alleviate foot-related discomfort. These glimpses into medical history remind us how far we have come in understanding ailments and treating them effectively. While some methods may seem outlandish today, they reflect humanity's relentless pursuit of well-being across centuries - a testament to our unwavering determination when it comes to conquering afflictions both known and unknown.

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