There were eighteen of special importance; and Dr. Cummings, the successful young surgeon, a far-away relative-by-marriage, had, in all seriousness, prescribed eighteen lotions, elixirs, powders, pills and potions, to meet each of the eighteen varied symptoms.
"Our Nervous Friends Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness"
Robert S. Carroll
And the farms of St. Lawrence County could certainly be counted upon to supply such labor as was necessary for the rather simple tasks of mixing pills and elixirs and packaging them.
"History of the Comstock Patent Medicine Business and Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills"
Robert B. Shaw
No longer do hope-giving pills and elixirs, or almanacs and circulars in the millions, pour out of Morristown destined for country drugstores and lonely farmhouses over half a continent.
"History of the Comstock Patent Medicine Business and Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills"
Robert B. Shaw