Beecham’s pills Health Dictionary

Beecham’s Pills: From 1 Different Sources


Ingredients: Aloes 42mg; Anise oil 200 micrograms; Capsicum oleoresin 100 micrograms (mcg); Ginger oleoresin 400mcg; Juniper oil 700mcg; light magnesium carbonate 2-5mg; Soap (hard) 9.7mg; Rosemary oil 700mcg; Ginger 20.3mcg; Coriander 4.4mg. (Beecham Proprietaries) 
Health Source: Bartrams Encyclopedia of Herbal Medicine
Author: Health Encyclopedia

Pills

Small round masses containing active drugs held together by syrup, gum, glycerin, or adhesive vegetable extracts. They are sometimes without coating, being merely rolled in French chalk, but often they are covered with sugar or gelatin. Many people use the term interchangeably with tablets, and ‘the pill’ has come to represent oral contraceptives.... pills

Box’s Indigestion Pills

Ingredients: Myrrh 18.2 per cent. Gentian 18.2 per cent. Ginger 18.2 per cent. Aloes 18.92 per cent. Capsicum 18.2 per cent. Acacia 6.3 per cent. Cajuput oil 2.7 per cent. For dyspepsia. Very popular in their day but now obsolete. ... box’s indigestion pills

Little Liver Pills

For bilious headache, inactive liver, constipation.

Ingredients: Aloin gr. 1/10. Ipom resin gr. 1/10. Capsic gr. 1/50. Podoph. resin. gr. 1/10. Jalapin gr. 1/10. Olearesin. Ginger. gr. 1/70.

Dose: One or two pills at bedtime or after dinner.

Historical interest only. ... little liver pills




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