History in Hindsight

J Smitty- "Weak & Puny Men" (1900)


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J. Smitty (Comedy Central) joins the podcast to look at an advertisement from 1900 targeting "weak and puny men".  Its for Dr. McLaughlin's electric belt.  This was an electric belt that Dr. McLaughlin claimed could cure everything from indigestion to female weakness.

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