God forbid the lads might need a laxative!
- Dr. Lorraine’s Vegetable Pill “Mild, certain, safe, efficient. It is far the best cathartic remedy yet discovered” (25 cents a box)
- Polk Miller’s Liver Pills: “For constipation, headache, biliousness” (10 cents per box)
- Dr. Wengert’s Hepatica Pills: For derangement of the liver and secretions. An alternative and cathartic”
- Dr. C. McLane’s Celebrated Liver Pills: “For sick headache and in all bilious complaints”
- Dr. T. Reynolds’ Celebrated Virginia Hepatic Pills
- Holloway’s Pills: ( aloe, myrrh, saffron) “sick headache with loss of appetite … dropsical swellings and turn of life … nervous disorders …”
- Tamara Larix Bon Bon: “For the cure of constipation and liver diseases and thereby for the prevention of headache, dyspepsia, cerebral congestion, biliousness, piles, etc. Etc. Cures constipation and thus prevents congestion of the brain, apoplexy, insanity, convulsions. It is almost a cure for seasickness”
- Dr. H.D. Whitlock’s Cathartic Granules
- Brandreth’s Pills: “Excellent purgative and anti-bilious pills, warranted purely vegetable”
- Ayer’s Pills: “Purely vegetable cathartic”
- Beecham’s Pills:“The great English remedy, cures bilious and nervous ills” (25 cents a box)
- Schenck’s Mandrake Pills: (“For biliousness and associated conditions due to constipation” “For all bilious complaints. These pills are composed exclusively of vegetable ingredients and, although they entirely supersede the use of mercury, do not have any of its injurious effects. They act directly upon the liver, and are a valuable remedy in all cases of derangement of that organ. Sick headache, indigestion, and all bilious disorders succumb to the free use of them”
- Hall Family Pills: “For sick headache, vertigo or dizziness, constipation”
- Rush’s Pills: “Purgative”
