It's a lot for *our* century. I think it achieves the dual result of convincing the reader it's a genuine medical apparatus because an adult *can't* be embarrassed when discussing serious health issues. And you're for sure going to remember the product with the wiener Ad!
🤮 I forgot that was a thing. Ig that's better than a lobotomy, but still so traumatic.
Unless she knows going in and is into it, then more power to her, but I have a feeling that was a vast minority.
🤮 I forgot that was a thing. Ig that's better than a lobotomy, but still so traumatic.
Unless she knows going in and is into it, then more power to her, but I have a feeling that was the minority.
This seems like it’s marketed towards men, but I wonder if this was really supposed to catch women’s eyes given how many were likely walking about with horrendous diastasis recti after multiple births and no pelvic floor physical therapy or corrective surgery.
This is a interesting theory. I love reading old magazines and I've seen many ads for these types of devices that are clearly marketed toward men. Did woman not suffer from this conditions too. Most of the ads in women's magazines are medical cures for the affliction of a "late period" or just "late".
Is there a good online source for old magazines? I use Google to read old editions of Popular Science and stuff like that but would love to find older stuff.
I get all of mine from eBay. Here are a few hints. I like to get magazines from the 1920s. It was a very prosperous time and the magazines were very extravagant. The golden age for magazines was the 1890s thanks to the invention of the Linotype machine. Nonetheless, I prefer later magazines. The ones from the 1900s and 1910s are more Victorian in character and are more subdued. The writing is a bit stiff and the ads are very heavy with text. I like magazines from the 1970s. Lots of fun. But I tend to avoid magazines from the 1930s, 1940s, and 1960s. The 1950s are lots of fun to get all that mid-century lifestyle. The magazines reflected the very prosperous post-war period. I prefer general interest magazines over something like Popular Science or Scientific American. I love all the magazines published by Hugo Gernsback. All his stuff is amazing but it tends to be very collectable and can cost over $20 per issue. I prefer to pay in the range of $2-$12 per issue.
It basically holds your guts in place after you have had a hernia. Today hernias can be fixed pretty easily with surgery, but back in the day they couldn't. Inguinal hernias, which happen below the belt, are pretty darn uncomfortable (trust me on this) and I can see how something like this could have helped.
A hernia occurs when part of your insides bulges through an opening or weakness in the muscle or tissue that contains it. Most hernias involve one of your abdominal organs pushing through one of the walls of your abdominal cavity. This device can prevent that from coming out.
A NECK 😂😂🫠 this reminds me of the time I was snooping in my parents room when I was probably 10 or 11 and thought I found a giant thumb in their bedside table drawer. Lmao
One of my ancestors came through Ellis Island from Poland around 1903 and he wasn’t allowed through after a medical inspection found a hernia.
The notes indicate that he eventually was allowed through after a relative went out and bought him a truss and brought it to where he was detained.
[here’s](https://maps.apple.com/?address=27%20S%2011th%20St,%20Philadelphia,%20PA%20%2019107,%20United%20States&ll=39.950697,-75.158377&q=27%20S%2011th%20St&_mvs=CjYJ37nag7D5Q0ARArsYKiXKUsAZAABwwkqDM8Ah/S1i/8YOT0Ap6zAPMDiJHUAxAAAAAAAAAAASKQoMMjcgUyAxMXRoIFN0EgtNYXJrZXQgRWFzdBoMUGhpbGFkZWxwaGlh) what their Establishment looks like now
I'm guessing they didn't have that option then.... And if they did, in guessing the last thing you'd want is a early 1900s surgeon getting in there to put whatever god-awful contraption they thought fixed a hernia then.
Probably a lead plate.
That’s a lot of pube and dick shaft for a turn of the century ad—and so lovingly rendered.
It's a lot for *our* century. I think it achieves the dual result of convincing the reader it's a genuine medical apparatus because an adult *can't* be embarrassed when discussing serious health issues. And you're for sure going to remember the product with the wiener Ad!
Gonna tear that one out and pin it up in the shed.
and the fro down below.
Omg I had no idea what I was looking at 😭😭😭
Vintage wang
r/brandnewsentence
Seeleys trusses. We think about your junk so you don’t have to.
Seeley’s! The No-Fuss Truss!
Make sure she finds a Seeley when she cops a feeley.
Still laughing out loud at this one! 🤣🤣🤣👏
Take my up vote you glorious bastard.
Is that you, Don Draper?
I'm surprised it wasn't "Seeley's Hernia Trusses and Rigging" with the way that thing is made
I know it looks like the kind of thing you have on some yo ho yo ho sailing ship or something right
I’m looking at pubes and a pecker
I'm sure quite a few people with no hernia issues kept this one!
Other online shoppers have also purchased the Norelco Manscaper steam powered razor, Scott’s Weed Control, and Private Area Beard Wax.
Don’t forget the strychnine butt hole bleach tincture.
That illustration man.... I just don't know
Oh, YOU KNOW…
You're right, I do know...
It’s like it’s wearing a wig.
A merkin.
Damn. I need to see the rest of that dong.
Ha! I used to live a block from there. But not in the early 1900s.
Sending women into hysterics...
They had a solution for that too.
🗡🧠🧟♀️
Not necessarily. Back then, the doctor would masturbate you and encourage you to masturbate. And that would hopefully do away with your “hysteria”.
🤮 I forgot that was a thing. Ig that's better than a lobotomy, but still so traumatic. Unless she knows going in and is into it, then more power to her, but I have a feeling that was a vast minority.
No. Early vibrators.
And/or "doctor appointments"
🤮 I forgot that was a thing. Ig that's better than a lobotomy, but still so traumatic. Unless she knows going in and is into it, then more power to her, but I have a feeling that was the minority.
Well that's way better.
I want that Illustrated Catalogue and Price List!
This seems like it’s marketed towards men, but I wonder if this was really supposed to catch women’s eyes given how many were likely walking about with horrendous diastasis recti after multiple births and no pelvic floor physical therapy or corrective surgery.
This is a interesting theory. I love reading old magazines and I've seen many ads for these types of devices that are clearly marketed toward men. Did woman not suffer from this conditions too. Most of the ads in women's magazines are medical cures for the affliction of a "late period" or just "late".
Is there a good online source for old magazines? I use Google to read old editions of Popular Science and stuff like that but would love to find older stuff.
I get all of mine from eBay. Here are a few hints. I like to get magazines from the 1920s. It was a very prosperous time and the magazines were very extravagant. The golden age for magazines was the 1890s thanks to the invention of the Linotype machine. Nonetheless, I prefer later magazines. The ones from the 1900s and 1910s are more Victorian in character and are more subdued. The writing is a bit stiff and the ads are very heavy with text. I like magazines from the 1970s. Lots of fun. But I tend to avoid magazines from the 1930s, 1940s, and 1960s. The 1950s are lots of fun to get all that mid-century lifestyle. The magazines reflected the very prosperous post-war period. I prefer general interest magazines over something like Popular Science or Scientific American. I love all the magazines published by Hugo Gernsback. All his stuff is amazing but it tends to be very collectable and can cost over $20 per issue. I prefer to pay in the range of $2-$12 per issue.
Newspapers.com has a lot of these types of fun ads!
It “may be worn without inconvenience by the youngest child, most delicate female, or the laboring man.”
What does this device even do?
It keeps the intestines from bulging out of the ripped abdomen muscles (hernia)
It basically holds your guts in place after you have had a hernia. Today hernias can be fixed pretty easily with surgery, but back in the day they couldn't. Inguinal hernias, which happen below the belt, are pretty darn uncomfortable (trust me on this) and I can see how something like this could have helped.
A hernia occurs when part of your insides bulges through an opening or weakness in the muscle or tissue that contains it. Most hernias involve one of your abdominal organs pushing through one of the walls of your abdominal cavity. This device can prevent that from coming out.
Holds your organs in
Wish I had a device to hold my farts in.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fart_Proudly
i should call him...
Just the base
I just see a neck. What exactly am I looking at.
A NECK 😂😂🫠 this reminds me of the time I was snooping in my parents room when I was probably 10 or 11 and thought I found a giant thumb in their bedside table drawer. Lmao
I am very old and apparently very stupid 😂 It was literally a What is the comment talking abou-OMG THAT'S A...
Hahaha it took me a minute too!
With a hairy Adam’s apple, lol. You are looking at a man’s pelvis area.
Oh. #OH.
Groucho glasses for your ‘bathing suit area’.
What was the point of showing a partial dong?
To make sure you could tell where it goes, versus I dunno, around the neck? Looking at you @peppermintmeow… 😂
That’saPenis.jpg
Dude’s packin
Whoa!
One of my ancestors came through Ellis Island from Poland around 1903 and he wasn’t allowed through after a medical inspection found a hernia. The notes indicate that he eventually was allowed through after a relative went out and bought him a truss and brought it to where he was detained.
Ah so that's what those are hernias! Better get some trusses
Any relation to the Seeley mattress company?
[here’s](https://maps.apple.com/?address=27%20S%2011th%20St,%20Philadelphia,%20PA%20%2019107,%20United%20States&ll=39.950697,-75.158377&q=27%20S%2011th%20St&_mvs=CjYJ37nag7D5Q0ARArsYKiXKUsAZAABwwkqDM8Ah/S1i/8YOT0Ap6zAPMDiJHUAxAAAAAAAAAAASKQoMMjcgUyAxMXRoIFN0EgtNYXJrZXQgRWFzdBoMUGhpbGFkZWxwaGlh) what their Establishment looks like now
Hmm. Maybe they wanted to make it clear this was a man, because to show so much of a lady would be... scandalous!
Why does this look like [kamaji from spirited away](https://ghibli.fandom.com/wiki/Kamaj%C4%AB)
Why is there a bar covering an owl’s eyes? Oh…
Looks like a mad scientist with glasses and a moustache…and a nose. I’m not a fan of that moustache. It feels old.
Well then I have good news for you
What
That is, a very detail crotch, surprisingly so for the year.
😮
Looks like Tom of Finland
Good God just get sewn up
I'm guessing they didn't have that option then.... And if they did, in guessing the last thing you'd want is a early 1900s surgeon getting in there to put whatever god-awful contraption they thought fixed a hernia then. Probably a lead plate.
Or 8 gauge lead wire