Patent Medicine Pillows

Neat vintage retro Patent Medicine design. Gilbert and Parsons Hygienic Whiskey!

Neat vintage retro Patent Medicine design. Lydia E. Pinkham's Herb Medicine!

Neat vintage retro Patent Medicine design. Lydia E. Pinkham's Herb Medicine!

Neat vintage retro Patent Medicine design. For man and beast, Merchants Gargling Oil!

Stethoscope Patent 1945 White

These whimsical bottles might once have held the noxious nostrums of the patent medicine trend. Now, they're pretty on a window sill. Patent medicines were hawked in the 17th to 19th centuries, often by travelling salesmen (the real-world counterpart of the Wizard of Oz was a seller of patent medicines). The advertising for these substances formed the beginning of marketing and branding as a science. Called "snake oil salesmen," the purveyors of patent medicines would often attribute their curative powers to the alchemy of the Far East. Were they motivated by cultural appropriation and cheap exoticism? Yes, indeed -- but a historic moment in American advertising nonetheless! And it's a great example of the ways Western culture...

Med Student Gift Vintage Patent Image

Stethoscope Patent 1945 black

STETHOSCOPE patent print

DENTIST CHAIR patent print

TOOTHBRUSH patent print

STETHOSCOPE poster

Doctor Gift Idea Skeleton Stethoscope Vintage Patent Image

Laryngoscope Patent 1989 Surgeon gifts