MONDAY MAY 25TH REMEMBERING IN DIFFERENT WAYS

By admin

IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO PERISHED WHETHER IN THE LINE OF DUTY
OR IN THE CURRENT EPIDEMIC.  YOU WILL BE REMEMBERED IN OUR HEARTS

On this Memorial Day we thank the staff at Coler who have worked thru the worst of times to  make a better home for its residents, whether serving coffee or doing the acts of kindness that make Coler residents comfortable. We salute the staff, permanent, temporary, long-timers or visitors for their dedication.

MONDAY

MAY 25 2020

RIHS’s 60th Issue of

Included in this Issue:

MEDICAL ADVERTISING OF
60 to 100 YEARS AGO

(c) RIHS

Hundreds of journals were found in the Goldwater Hospital after it closed.  They are a time-line of history.

Enjoy this ad for COLGATE’S RIBBON DENTAL CREAM

After you brush your teeth have some LAVORIS

The “palatable” broth cured everything.

This lamp treats everything from carbuncles to tuberculosis.

Take a deep breath and hold it……..

Impressive-just by the dials and gauges

You can take the Pennsylvania Railroad to Glen Springs to be treated for what ails you.

RADIUM was a wonder treatment 

Waldorf Astoria in its original location where the
Empire State Building is now located.

New vigor, new capacities when you stay at this Atlantic City Hotel before gambling

LEITZ is still one of the finest optical equipment company based in
Rochester, New York

Sounds like an interesting logo “Makers of Medicine of Rare Quality”

Just look at the list this device will treat!

HERE ARE SOME OF OUR FAVORITE CIGARETTE ADS

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MONDAY PHOTO OF THE DAY

Identify and locate this.
Send your answer to jbird134@aol.com
Win a trinket from the RIHS kiosk.

YESTERDAY’S MYSTERY PHOTO OF THE DAY

Mural “Abstraction” by Ilya Bolotowsky that was at Goldwater Hospital, now in Bloomberg Center at Cornell Tech.

EDITORIAL

With all the talk of quick fix medicines for the Covid-19 virus, I was thinking of the medical devices, pharmaceuticals that were prevalent in the country years ago. After I posted these ads, i

I realized that not much has changed.  We don’t sell radium over the counter but we still have Snake oil salesmen trying to sell us unproven cures, remedies and concoctions.

Judith Berdy

Text by Judith Berdy Thanks to Bobbie Slonevsky
for her dedication to Blackwell’s Almanac
Thanks to Deborah Dorff for maintaining our website
Edited by Melanie Colter and Deborah Dorff
All materials in this publication are copyrighted (c)

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