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Ad-people (apparently in great numbers) used to think that the best way to get people into something was to depict other people with zonked-out smiles while standing in the general area of the product in question. These smiles are almost never quite right-looking. This is the period of history that also brought us widespread mandatory psycho-surgery. |
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Advertisements for Wolcott’s Instant Pain Annihilator. Color lithograph for Wolcott by W. Endicott & Co., ca. 1863.
“A speedy & permanent cure for headache, toothache, neuralgia, catarrh and weak nerves.”
More information: http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/2008/12/wolcotts-instant-pain-annihilator.html
(via my-ear-trumpet)