PSA Monday (today on Tuesday): Health Myths Debunked!

February 21st, 2006

Filed under: Comics, Medicine

H, in the midst of all his Aqua-blogging, was kind enough to send the following comic book PSA ad my way:

From the year 1966 and Aquaman #27 comes “Health Myths Debunked!” — brought to you by the National Social Welfare Assembly (and of course The Comic Treadmill)

  • This mysterious unnamed doctor gives sound advice. As an aside, I’ve always wondered where the idea of puuting a piece of beef over a black eye came from.
  • Personally, I’m more puzzled by the unnamed doctor himself. Who is he, and what does he do — just hang around abandoned construction sites waiting for children to hurt themselves? That just isn’t right.
  • I think the “Mysterious Unnamed Doctor” needs his own HeroClix.
  • I like the totally random selection of health myths: puncture wounds, frostbite, black eyes, and shaving. They could have at least picked a theme and stuck with it (like “injuries incurred by playing on an abandoned construction site.”)

If you learn nothing else from the internet today, just remember what the Mysterious Unnamed Doctor™ says:

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7 Responses to “ PSA Monday (today on Tuesday): Health Myths Debunked! ”

  1. Roger Green
    February 22nd, 2006 at 4:58 am

    Mysterious Unnamed Doctor- his name is MUD, probably an
    ancestor of newsman Roger Mudd.

  2. Devin Harris
    February 22nd, 2006 at 10:33 am

    Surely I can’t be the only one who finds Mysterious Unnamed Doctor a bit, well, creepy…can I?

  3. Scott
    February 22nd, 2006 at 11:02 am
    Official Comment

    No, he’s definitely creepy.

  4. Chris M
    February 22nd, 2006 at 4:43 pm

    I’m pretty sure the steak in the ‘raw meat to the eye’ remedy is just another species of cold compress. A raw steak is pretty chilly, and deforms to the shape of the eye. An old home remedy that works on the same principle as Dr Mud’s science.

  5. Scott
    February 22nd, 2006 at 4:45 pm
    Official Comment

    That’s pretty much the only reason I could think of myself, especially from back in the pre-refrigerator ice box day.

  6. Harvey D. Cotton Jr.
    March 14th, 2008 at 4:00 pm

    So is it still okay to use butter to treat a burn?

  7. Wanderer
    March 17th, 2008 at 11:00 am

    No, Mr. Cotton, it isn’t. Oils like butter or margarine will actually seal in the heat, rather than allowing it to escape naturally. (Also, butter and margarine turn rancid pretty quickly.) The best treatment for a first-degree burn is to immerse it in cold water for roughly 20 minutes (according to askdrsears.com), followed by some pain reliever. Since second-degree burns form blisters, you need actual burn creams for those. (Third-degree burns, naturally, are filed under GO TO THE HOSPITAL RIGHT NOW.)

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