I used to be SO nervous -- about 1885

Advertising card courtesy of the Brockville Museum, Ontario.
Scanned by John Mack.
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Wikipedia:

Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills were first made in 1854 in Buffalo, New York.
The company moved from Buffalo to Brockville, Ontario, and also Morristown, New York.
There never was a Dr. Morse

The ingredients were identified as natural herbs and roots used by the Indians.
W.H. Comstock said these pills cured:

Biliousness,
Dyspepsia,
Constipation,
Sick Headache,
Scrofula,
Kidney Disease,
Liver Complaint,
Jaundice,
Piles,
Dysentery,
Colds,
Boils,
Malarial Fever,
Flatulency,
Foul Breath,
Eczema,
Gravel,
Worms,
Female Complaints,
Rheumatism,
Neuralgia,
La Grippe,
Palpitation,
and
Nervousness

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W. H. Comstock's Indian Root Pills continued to be made in Australia until 1959
(see below)

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