--- title: No home remedy or quack ever cured syphilis or gonorrhea url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/no-home-remedy-or-quack-ever-cured-syphilis-or-gonorrhea-1941/ description: 'Public health poster: a figure built from yellow newspaper clippings and patent-medicine advertisements pours red liquid from a bottle onto a spoon.' section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. No home remedy or quack ever cured syphilis or gonorrhea **Content note:** Reproduced period advertisements for venereal-disease remedies, with frank medical wording. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was) [![No home remedy or quack ever cured syphilis or gonorrhea, 1941 US poster: Public health poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/no-home-remedy-or-quack-ever-cured-syphilis-or-gonorrhea-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/no-home-remedy-or-quack-ever-cured-syphilis-or-gonorrhea-1941.jpg) # No home remedy or quack ever cured syphilis or gonorrhea Public health poster: a figure built from yellow newspaper clippings and patent-medicine advertisements pours red liquid from a bottle onto a spoon, on a dark blue field. The clippings carry quack-cure claims ('Gon-Med', 'Blood disease controlled with home treatment') and the headline reads 'No home remedy or quack ever cured syphilis or gonorrhea. See your doctor or health officer.' The tell is the collage: real-looking ad copy is gathered to show the claims, then answered by one line. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` UNITED STATES PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE [signature:] KARSAKOV [clippings:] Dr. Welch's Gon-Med / Recommended For Use In Treatment Of GONORRHEA / This can be used in your home and no one need know your condition. / All correspondence is strictly confidential. / SENT IN PLAIN WRAPPER / For Men: $3.00 / For Women: $2.00 / specify whether for man or [cut off] / WELCH MEDICINE [cut off] SECRETS OF WISE [cut off] PHYSICIANS AND GREAT CHEMISTS ARE EMB[cut off] THESE FORMULAS AND THEY DO [cut off] / CURES UNDER [cut off] IODIDES, [cut off] NO CASE WITHOUT CHEMIST [cut off] 909 [partly illegible] O. K. MEDICINE / [partly illegible clipping text] FOUND — A CHECK FOR PARAL[cut off] Every woman should USE PAXTON'S 3 in 1 for a wash, to [cut off] Diseases. Saves A Hot Spring Trip! Paxton's 2 Life Savers Puts Superior Healing Waters in your Home. Unnatural Color and LEOPARD SPOTS [cut off] What You Are On [cut off] Save Your Vital Organs and [cut off] TROLS Disease of Blood BLOOD DISEASE CONTROLLED WITH HOME TREATMENT / Read What Mr. Sam C. Has to Say of This Easily Used 69-Year-Old Treatment / Mr. Sam C. of Los Angeles, Cal., like hundreds of other satisfied users, writes his endorsement as follows: "Your medicine will do more than you claim for it. I have seen it proven for over 40 years. There is nothing wrong with me [partly illegible] HOW I RESTORED MYSELF TO PERFECT HEALTH FROM TUBERCULOSIS, SYPHILIS AND CANCER / INTRODUCING "NEUROPO" SYSTEM OF RESTORING HEALTH (REVISED EDITION) / BY LOUIS BOND CHERRY SYPHILORRHOEA [partly cut off] / DR. READ'S EUREKA NERVE AND BO[cut off] / EUREKA CO., 1616 South St [cut off] 'Men's Doctor' Racket Dupes Thousands, Slaying Reveals See the editorial, "Beware of Quacks." FREE ADVICE / MEN'S DOCTOR / SPECIALIST A belief that thousands of Pitts[burgh men] have fallen prey in re[cent years] / 'Somethin[g] Mike Kosk[o] Don't Do That My Friend But Take Holmes' Dead Shot EUREKA TONIC BUILD SY[cut off] NO home remedy or quack ever cured syphilis or gonorrhea see your doctor or health officer [imprint:] VD 7-R 41 ``` [← No home remedy ever cured gonorrhea](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/no-home-remedy-ever-cured-gonorrhea-1941/) [No room for rumors →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/no-room-for-rumors-seagram-1941/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Fragments of the Abydos king list from Ramesses II's temple, in the British Museum: rows of royal cartouches](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/abydos-king-list-ramesses-ii-temple-british-museum/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer) - [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account. - [Tomb of Darius I at Naqsh-e Rustam: the king in relief beside his inscription DNa, c. 490 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dna-inscription-darius-i-naqsh-e-rustam-490bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Testimonial, Card stacking) - [Line drawing of the Great Kadesh battle relief on the walls of the Ramesseum, from Breasted's History of Egypt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kadesh-relief-ramesseum-breasted-drawing-1275bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer). Content note: A drawing of an Egyptian royal battle relief showing Hittite soldiers and horses killed and drowned, as the king's monument presented the battle; it is a one-sided image made by the winning side's own account. - [Persepolis, Apadana staircase relief: a figure with an animal from a procession of delegations, early fifth century BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/persepolis-apadana-delegate-relief-500bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Manufactured consensus) - [Alabaster relief, Assyrian troops storming a citadel, from Nineveh (reign of Sennacherib)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/relief-sennacherib-storming-citadel-nineveh-704bce/) (Neo Assyrian Empire · 0000 · Card stacking). Content note: An Assyrian palace relief of troops storming a fortified city, with a file of figures below; Assyrian royal reliefs and texts record killing, mutilation and deportation, shown as carved, with the historical context and scholarly dispute on the regime page. - [Colour lithograph of the Latin text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti on the wall of the temple of Roma and Augustus at Ancyra, with the heading in large letters (Perrot, Guillaume and Delbet, 1872)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lithograph-res-gestae-ancyra-heading-0014/) (Roman Empire · 0014 · Card stacking, Glittering generalities) - [Silver denarius of Vespasian, reverse IVDAEA with a trophy of arms and a seated mourning woman](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/denarius-vespasian-judaea-capta-0070/) (Roman Empire · 0070 · Card stacking). Content note: A Roman victory coin showing a mourning female figure as the personification of the conquered province of Judaea after the Roman suppression of the Jewish revolt; shown as struck, with the historical context on the regime page.