Dysentery? Take Dr. Morse's Magic Pills

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 plants in both Brockville, Ontario, and Morristown, New York.

 

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

 

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