Grandpa, about 1885

Carter's Little Liver Pills Advertising Card,
courtesy of the Brockville Museum, Ontario.
Scanned by John Mack.
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The pills were first manufactured in 1868 when Dr Samuel Carter of Erie, Pennsylvania devised a formula that he thought was 'good for sick headache, torpid liver, indigestion, constipation or what-ails-you'. The formula included podophyllum resin from dried mandrake root combined with dried aloes juice, and bisacodyl as the active ingredient. The pills claimed to cure 'headache, biliousness, constipation, etc.' and are 'strictly vegetable'.

-- Wellcome Collection. Org

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