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Spoonfuls of Medicine, Marketed for Centuries

Everyone knows you can't buy health, but that has never stopped anyone from trying to sell it to you. As a small, gorgeous and fiercely funny exhibition of posters at the Philadelphia Museum of Art makes clear, the marketing of this particular noncommodity is an enduring art in every sense of the word. The basic gambit has probably not changed since the Stone Age: a concerned stranger presents you with a vision of the future, starring either a happier, better you with the use of a certain product, or a sadder-but-wiser, considerably more miserable you without it. For centuries all was word of mouth, but with the birth of the modern poster in the late 19th century the visions suddenly became visual, flowering in large and colorful profusion all over the world.

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The familiar verbal effluvia of the patent medicine industry clutter some early posters. The Green Mountain balm is ¡°universally acknowledged to be the best Plaster ever known,¡± with an entire paragraph in small print enumerating its target ills, from pain and internal inflammation through lameness, boils and corns. Dr. Trikos, purveyor of an eponymous lotion for irritations of the skin and baldness, summarized it all eloquently: ¡°I have cured myself, I have cured my friends, and I wish to cure all who suffer.¡± The words eventually fell away, though, and the images took center stage, helped along by some of the best-known poster artists of the time.