No home remedy ever cured gonorrhea
Public health poster in stylised geometric blocks of orange, blue and black: a maroon medicine bottle stands on folded blue paper above the words 'no home remedy ever cured GONORRHEA'. The tell is the flat warning claim, with a bottle as the only symbol and no named alternative on the sheet. The technique is faint.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Public Health Service
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Theme
- Health
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
U.S. Public Health Service. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1411 (NAID 515075).
Text on the object
no home remedy ever cured GONORRHEA [imprint, faint:] UNITED STATES PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE [imprint:] VD-15
