$65.00
1 in stock
Dr. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People RARE 19th Century Advertising Container
Up for sale is this antique Dr. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People 19th century advertising plastic container. This pill container measures 2 inches long and 1 3/4 inches wide. Excellent condition as you can see from the photos.
According to its Wikipedia page "Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People was a late 19th to early 20th-century patent medicine containing ferrous sulfate and magnesium sulfate.[1] It was produced by Dr. Williams Medicine Company, the trading arm of G. T. Fulford & Company. It was claimed to cure chorea, referenced frequently in newspaper headlines as "St. Vitus' Dance," as well as "locomotor ataxia, partial paralyxia, seistica, neuralgia rheumatism, nervous headache, the after-effects of la grippe, palpitation of the heart, pale and sallow complexions, [and] all forms of weakness in male or female."
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