Eno's 'Fruit Salt' advertisement: A Pleasant Way to Health – Antique Print
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Eno's 'Fruit Salt' advertisement: A Pleasant Way to Health
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Eno's Fruit Salt was one of the most widely advertised patent remedies of its era, and this piece stands out for its promise of "a pleasant way to health," a pitch that set the product apart from harsher purgatives. The salt was an effervescent powder that fizzed when dissolved in water, and its makers marketed it as a gentle remedy for indigestion and sluggish digestion. James Crossley Eno, an English chemist, developed it in the 1850s, and it became a fixture in households well beyond Britain. Cheerful, colorful advertising like this shows how manufacturers sold health as something agreeable rather than grim.
| Original scan | 572 × 800 px |
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| Reference | 506 |
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