Dr. Williams' Pink Pill Label - 1900's dated American Bank Note Specimen Label - Pink Pills for Pale People

Dr. Williams' Pink Pill for pale people label specimen. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People was a late 19th to early 20th-century patent medicine containing ferrous sulfate and magnesium sulfate. 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." The pills were available over-the-counter.

In 1890, G. T. Fulford & Company purchased the rights to produce Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People for $53.01 after encountering a pill prescribed by a local physician, William Jackson, and began marketing it through Dr. Williams Medicine Company. Reverend Enoch Hill of M.E. Church of Grand Junction in Iowa, endorsed the product in many 1900s advertisements, claiming that it energized him and cured his chronic headaches. Eventually, the product came to be advertised around the world in 82 countries, including its native Canada, the United States, and Europe. In the late 19th century, the pills were marketed in the UK by the American businessman John Morgan Richards. Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Williams%27_Pink_Pills_for_Pale_People

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