Victorian Advertising
VICTORIAN CUREALLS
Whelpton's Pills
Recommended for disorders of the head, chest, bowels, liver and kidneys.
G. Whelpton & Son, 3 Crane Court, Fleet Street, London, E.C.
A magazine adverts published in 1891.
Homocea (for a larger picture, click on the above image)
'Afflicted with neuralgia, lumbago, paralysis, convulsions, bruises, strained
muscles, pains in joints, aches and sprains, eczema, burns, toothache, faceache,
chilblains, boils, ulcers, stings, chaps, and all kindred ills and complaints.'
Many medicines paid for celebrity endorsements:
'Lord Carrick of Mount Juliet, Thomastown, writes: Homocea cured him of a
very severe case of Hemorrhoids in a fortnight, when all else had failed.'
A magazine advert from 1894.
St. Jacob's Oil (for a larger picture, click on the above image)
Cures Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Lumbago, Sciatica, Soreness, Stiffness, Sprains,
Bronchitis, and all Aches and Pains.
A magazine advert from 1894.
Bates's Sulphur Salt
'it will help you to prolong life! by ridding the blood from all impurities,
clearing off pimples, blackheads, and all unsightly blotches. [...] It also
cures headache, and acts like magic on the vital organs, tones up the liver,
restores the complexion - bringing back the bloom of health and appetite of
youth - curing eczema, rheumatism, and all diseases caused by impure blood.'
F. W. Bates, Brooks's Bar, Manchester.
A magazine advert published in 1894.
Holloway's Pills and Ointment
78 New Oxford Street, London.
A magazine advert published in 1895.
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