Vintage Ads - Health and Wellness

My pronouns are him, he, and "fleshy people."

Someone had to post it.

Pick up some Baby Gays while you're out

Mary and her friend look a bit butch, don't they?

Clean that cunt out with Lysol!

Another family destroyed by an undouched vag:

Finally, we have a solution for Cheryl. Lysol!

Notice how Daddy never has to dip his smelly, STD covered dick in Lysol.

Lysol was also advertised as birth control.

Charles Atlas made weaklings into huskies and he-men!

Good news! The tapeworms are now sanitized.

^^Then you simply lure the worm out of your mouth with a piece of hamburger and get pulling on that sucker until all nine yards have been extricated. I’m surprised Goop isn’t selling organic non GMO tapeworm eggs.

Sometimes being gay really IS a choice.

WARNING: Do not apply directly to your peter

"It's no substitute for a week in Bermuda ..."

But if you've taken a few Miltowns, you could be vacationing in a Superfund site and enjoy it just as much!

[R16] what does a miltown feel like?

Diethylstilbestrol (DES), a synthetic form of the hormone estrogen, for just about everything:

Miltown (a.k.a. Equanil) was essentially the same drug as Soma, the muscle relaxer. Euphoric as hell. Made me want to "drunk dial" my best friends and share my love. ❤️

Milady needs her JITTERY NERVES calmed!

Anyone have the old safe sex pamphlets they used to hand out at the bathhouses?

like this?

R4 and OP

Those adverts (and sedatives they promoted) lead to Rolling Stones famous song Mother's Little Helper.

That little ditty took the piss out of scores if not hundreds (or thousands) of otherwise healthy women being handed out sedatives as if they were candy.

As deaths and other collateral damage began mounting up (overdoes intentional or otherwise, accidents caused by being under influence) , not to mention meprobamate (Miltown) is highly addictive lead to some changes.

Meprobamate/Miltown was pushed out of favor by benzodiazepines (temazepam, alprazolam, diazepam, clonazepam , etc... (often prescribed for same reasons), but soon it became apparent same problems were coming back. You can still get Miltown though not many physicians will write a script. Ditto now for Valium or Xanax other than very small amounts.

Then there was the grand daddy of them all methaqualone (commonly known under brand name Quaalude) that caused so much trouble it was withdrawn from US market in 1982, and made a Schedule I drug two years later.

It IS telling that almost every single ad was aimed at a MAN telling him why it was good for his wife to be on this or that drug.

Where can I get some of those Miltowns? I like how advertising used to have friendly paragraphs to read.

This child's life may depend on the safety of thalidomide.

R25

Men (and thus medical science) long have been mystified by females. Once a month a woman goes through hormonal changes that men just don't have a clue about. Then there are same changes brought about during and after pregnancy. Things got (or get) more confusing when women go through menopause.

Good ole medicine doing what it does best comes up with pills or whatever that will make said women easier to live with; this I suppose was a better option than having them put away in mental asylums.

Of course large amounts of what bothered women had nothing to do with their hormones; but their assigned lot in life. Ms. Betty Friedan blew those doors wide open with her book "The Feminine Mystique".

Men and even mothers or friends of women kept asking them "what exactly is your problem?". "You have a nice house, lovely children, don't I buy you every thing you want...?" "Haven't I worked my ass off for you...?" Turns out for many women their assigned lot in life; housewife and mother, just wasn't enough. That was causing all the mental issues; not physical aliments.

R29

Thalidomide was one of the darkest and cruel things medical/pharmaceutical science did to women and unborn children.

Dexedrine — for those pesky vegetable patients.

"Don't let daddy lick me again!"

There's just so, so much going on in this Fletcher's Castoria ad.

Jesus.

Speaking of miracle cures, I think about an hour of looking at ads like this would cure anyone suffering from the whole "those were the days" nostalgia kick.

I remember, about 1975, hearing my mother on the phone talking to her friend about getting together for “Valium, Gallo, and Merits”. It sounded so fun and still does, except I’d switch out the Gallo for a nice California chilled Chardonnay.

Not recommended for children under six.

I’ll just leave this here.

Amphetamine, the Wonder Drug!

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ASBESTOS

Gone are days when one could visit one's physician with vague complaints and walk out with a (refillable) prescription for Valium, Nembutal, Xanax or Seconal. Day before outpatient surgery got script for just *four* Xanax, with one to be taken night before. My quack wouldn't budge. some nonsense about things being tracked and monitored. What is the good of paying private physicians if they won't do what you want them to? *LOL*

A toilet mask will make your complexion glow!