The Syrup of Figs from the California Fig Syrup Company! This is a newspaper ad from 1899. I love these old ads. The thing is, Fig Syrup never really took off. I don’t think it did.
According to the ad, it cleanses the system. Dispels effectually, colds, headaches and fevers!
Overcomes habitual constipation permanently!
To get its beneficial effects buy the genuine – Man’f’d by California Fig Syrup Co.
I was going to research this miracle cure up and write something. I discovered, however, the blog MemoriesandMiscellany by Jack Sullivan already had a nice piece on it. Jack begins…
A Fig for Your Health!
Around the end of the 19th Century a series of hucksters, promising remedies for various ailments, centered on the lowly fig as an elixir of great potency and healing. Ironically, there is an traditional English saying about not giving or caring a fig about something. The Oxford English Dictionary translates “fig” in that context as something “small, valueless or contemptible.”
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