We see the apparently well man taking out a pill box or a bottle of medicine as he sits down to lunch.
"Dollars and Sense"
Col. Wm. C. Hunter
But for some reason or other, before he could do anything and speak to anybody, he had to take some sort of pill.
"Command"
William McFee
And: O thou, who at the age of three Grew faint and weak and ill, O'ertaken by the bitter pill Of cold adversity!
"Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions"
Slason Thompson