Quackery: The deliberate misrepresentation of the ability of a substance, a device, or a person to prevent or treat disease.
Since the beginning of commerce offers of Miracle cures and questionable methods were abundant. Human nature seeks out hope and it also finds ways to fill that need for hope that don’t always work out so well.
Luaubee's Vintage 
The hair growth miracle is a hoot!
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Radium!!! Wow…that’s so scary! đŸ™‚
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I think of the old westerns when the wagon came through selling their “miracle oils”
Ann
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I love the Hair Grows image. I wonder what his hair looked like when he took it off!
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What a FUN post. I love the old Quackery…and still today I think there is a lot of it floating about for lots of money.
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This is true: a liniment called snake oil was attacked by the US govt, not because it didn’t work – it did, actually – but because it contained no snake oil!
ROG, ABCW
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Great vintage treasure! (I hope no one got poisoned by this snake oil stuff back then.)
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nice choise for this weeks letter….. although those things never do good to anyone… what i dislike the most of it that very much people get mislead and disappointed at the cost of a lot of money
Have a nice abc-wednesday-day / – week
♫ M e l ☺ d y ♫ (abc-w-team)
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I have an old bottle of Dr. Thomas’s Electric Oil in my cupboard – a remembrance of my MIL who used it many years ago…..
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Fascinating. I never thought of that word for the letter Q…perfect.
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A great post and warning to the actions of quackery, which is completely nonsense and extremely dangerous!
Wil, ABCWTeam
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Quackery never goes out of style. I wonder if the Modern Vacuum Cap would help grow some hair on the top of my head? Thanks Janis for joining this week and I hope to see you back again.
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