this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2024
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Vintage and Retro Ads, Promos, Fliers, Etc.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Plot twist - the doctor in that photo is twenty six years old

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Read a story about a Naval officer who was having his lung problems treated back in the early 1930s.

The treatment was to have a doctor stick a needle in their chest and draw out all the air from the affected lung. That gave the lung a chance to heal.

While the lung was reinflating, the officer would lie in bed and smoke a cigarette to relieve the stress.

1912 article dscribing the process

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/653274#:~:text=Artificial%20pneumothorax%20therapy%20consists%20in%20the%20repeated%20injections,indefinite%20period%20the%20collapse%20of%20a%20diseased%20lung.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Warning: Causes T-Zone Odor

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I wonder why they would change the color of the letters M, D and C...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

MD for Medical Doctor and C for Camel would be my guess.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

As a former smoker, I can attest that camels are the healthiest cigarette brand. I'm still alive after smoking them for years at least.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I smoked Marlboros for a long time. Unfortunately, I am now dead but the cowboy in me lives on!