History of the Comstock Patent Medicine Business and Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills

HISTORY of the COMSTOCK PATENT MEDICINE BUSINESS and Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills

by Robert B. Shaw Associate Professor, Accounting and History Clarkson College of Technology Potsdam, N.Y.

SMITHSONIAN STUDIES IN HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY NUMBER 22

COVER: Changing methods of packaging Comstock remedies over the years.--Lower left: Original packaging of the Indian Root Pil...