Archive for May 21st, 2007

Oh. My. God. This is an actual poster for an actual weight-gain product from the 1890s.
Why suffer horrible tortures with inferior mechanical devices that artificially fatten? Don’t look like the poor unfortunate on the left above, who, shorn of her artificial inflationary devices & pads, must, in the confines of her bedroom, through shame, try [...]

Because, apparently, British pharmacists have never heard of it and don’t know it when they see it. A 28-year-old woman went into anaphylactic shock after being stung by a wasp and she got the “oh, you’re just being hysterical” treatment when she went to a pharmacy and asked for help.
“I got to the nearby pharmacy, [...]