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Published September 20, 2022 at 413 × 640 in Besought, Incited, or Commanded: the Art and Invention of Advertising

Cartoon shows a skull surrounded by money bags. Inside the nose of the skull a skeleton pours Laudanum and alcohol from barrels in the skull's eyes into bottles labeled with various types of patent medicine. The illustration and caption suggest that patent medicines are poisoning people.

Death’s laboratory – the patent medicine trust. Palatable poison for the people/drawn by E. W. Kimble. (Collier’s, 1905).