Chemically imbalanced: when marketing masquerades as science
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Tag: marketing
IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE
Daily Kennebec Journal, 19th November 1917
WORLD’S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
Recently, when searching the TROVE Scotland archive, I came across this old diary from 1899: Curious about the patient stories shared by the ‘World’s Dispensary Medical Association’ I decided to … Continue reading WORLD’S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
PEARL & DEAN
Folk of a certain age, of whom I am one, will no doubt remember PEARL & DEAN adverts at the local cinema. This hole ousia post shares a timeline of … Continue reading PEARL & DEAN
DOAN’S PILLS
For a comprehensive account of Doan’s Pills please follow this link. The following summary is based on this account. Doan’s Kidney pills, invented by the Canadian pharmacologist James Doan (1846-1916) … Continue reading DOAN’S PILLS
‘and Depression Disappeared’
An advert for PHOSFERINE, Perthshire Advertiser,7 September 1929
CRAZY ADVERT
Motherwell Times, 9 February 1934.
