History of the Comstock Patent Medicine Business and Dr. Morse's Indian Root PillsShaw, Robert B.
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History of the Comstock Patent Medicine Business and Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills
Shaw, Robert B.
Patent medicines -- United States; W.H. Comstock Co.
Although the original Comstock enterprise has been dissolved and
all of its undertakings in North America terminated, as has been
related herein, Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills and Comstock's Worm
Tablets are still being manufactured and sold--by the W.H. Comstock
Company Pty. Ltd., in Australia. This concern, originally a
subsidiary of the Canadian company, is headed by the former branch
manager for the Comstocks, who acquired the rights for Australia
and the Orient following the dissolution of the Brockville company.
Distribution is also carried out from this source into New Zealand,
Singapore, and Hong Kong. Packaging and directions are now modern,
the pills being described as "The Overnight Laxative with the Tonic
Action," but a reproduction of the old label and the facsimile
signature of William Henry Comstock, Sr., are still being
portrayed. Thus, the Indian Root Pills have been manufactured
continuously for at least 115 years and the Comstock business,
through the original and successor firms, has survived for nearly
140 years.
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Medicine Business and Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills, by Robert B. Shaw
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