Philadelphia Museum of Art has a new exhibit tracing the history of patent and quack medicine through posters, pamphlets, and prints:
These range from an early seventeenth-century Dutch engraving, Operation for Stones in the Head, a sleight-of-hand cure for insanity, to Medical Confessions of Medical Murder, a twelve-scene print in which James Morison, a clever marketer of pills, uses quotations from prominent physicians taken out of context to impugn their practices. The Health Jolting Chair, an 1885 color lithograph of a seated woman, demonstrates the ability of electricity to secure the "most highly prized Feminine Attractions"
Link to exhibit page,
Link to AP article with photos
here and
here (via Medgadget, thanks Howard Lovy!)
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