Thumbnails of Helfand Slide Talk - 25
Slide #25: The trade card for Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills had a mounted Indian and bear in the pose of St. George slaying the dragon. The pills were a good laxative, containing gamboge, aloin and capsicum. Their manufacturer, the Comstock company, had begun its operations before 1833, and a W.H. Comstock company was still in business in Australia in the 1970s.