Health
Check the Neck!
Beware of the "neck-breathers" among us!
Posted By: Paul - Fri Aug 29, 2014 -
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Category: Body Modifications, Health, Medicine, PSA’s
Clysmic Water
Source of B&W image (in back page advert section).
If this ad were selling bottled elk urine, I'd buy the stuff. Luckily, the product actually sounded beneficial.
Source of text.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Aug 15, 2014 -
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Category: Art, Business, Advertising, Products, Health, Regionalism, 1900s
Its Good For You
Hydrogen sulfide, the stuff that puts the smell in farts, is actually good for you. So claims a study by the University of Exeter. So the next time your spouse or significant other subjects you to a 'dutch oven' just know its because they love you!
Picture from Yahoo Images.
Posted By: Alex - Sat Jul 12, 2014 -
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Category: Health
Drinkable Suntan Lotion
New from Osmosis Skincare. A suntan lotion that you don't need to rub all over your skin. You just drink it. The Bristol Post explains:The drinkable solution is supposedly the equivalent of factor 30 SPF sun screen.
Not only drinkable, but holistic! That certainly sounds credible.
Posted By: Alex - Tue May 20, 2014 -
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Category: Health, Medicine
PillCam
Imagine it, a widely used and comfortable replacement for the colonoscopy. Well, soon it could be a reality. The PillCam is just that, a pill that holds a camera at each end. There was a first generation with one camera, the new one is second gen. The tech is affordable enough that the pill need not be retrieved after it is passed, there's some good news huh? It is FDA approved and in trials currently.
picture is from yahoo images.
Posted By: Alex - Sun Feb 09, 2014 -
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Category: Health
Ambition Pills for Weak and Nervous Men
Ads for these pills ran in many papers in the late 19th century. What was it in the pills that provided the ambition? If these pills were the same as 'Wendell's Ambition Pills,' which came on the market slightly later, then it was strychnine:
The Journal A.M.A., Apr 6, 1918.
Posted By: Alex - Sun Dec 15, 2013 -
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Category: Health, Medicine, Nineteenth Century
Shakespeare Got It Wrong
When Shakespeare wrote, "First kill all the lawyers." he may have gotten it wrong. Insurance adjusters seem to be closer to the mark. Trying to cheat someone out of insurance for cancer treatment over a 26 cent error is just heinous.
Posted By: Alex - Wed Aug 14, 2013 -
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Category: Health
Life Imitates THE FLY
Full article here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jan 18, 2013 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Health, Insects and Spiders, Science, 1950s
Dr. Rich Lather
'Dr. Rich Lather' commercial - Englewood Hospital from Kurt Ritta on Vimeo.
See, here's what I don't understand: when the two hands are shown scrubbing towards the end, are they the same intelligent face-bearing hands depicted earlier, bashing their facial features against one another till they all fall off? I mean, that's the logic of this nightmare world, right? But if so, where's the screaming?
Posted By: Paul - Sun Dec 30, 2012 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Health, PSA’s
A Brief History of Artificial Respiration
Courtesy of Boys' Life, April 1964.
Posted By: Alex - Mon Nov 19, 2012 -
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Category: Health, Medicine
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