Do You Lack Health and Vigor?

I recently acquired ---for eventual resale right here on eBay---a little 19th century novel by the once rather popular Bertha M. Clay, a novel with the irresistible title of  "A Woman's Temptation"  This copy was published by The John W. Lovell Company of New York, a firm which seems to have made a bit of additional revenue by including an ad or two at the back of the book.

And it's one of the ads that has caught my attention tonight:

Yes, it appears that Crosby's Vitalized Phos - Phites can help you in a huge variety of ways! One even wonders if it wasn't a precurser to Viagra......note that it promises "To restore lost powers and abilities!"

What, you may ask, were the  ingredients in this remarkable mostrum? Well, it was "Composed of the Nerve - Giving Principles of the Ox Brain and the Embryo of the Wheat and Oat."

Of course,  the product is not available today. So, you'll have to find other ways to "develop good teeth, glossy hair, clear skin, handsome nails", and to "strengthen the intellect" as well as "repair the nerves that have been enfeebled by worry, depression, anxiety or deep grief."

Or I suppose you could just mix up a bowl of ox brains and some wheat and oat embryos, maybe add some raisins or berries.....Mmmmmmmmmm, good!