Title
Bile Beans
Caption
Keep Healthy Happy and Slim by Taking Bile Beans brand pills. This image is from a small wax bag for a "medicine" which was a vegetable pill to aid in weight loss. Bile Beans was a laxative and tonic first marketed in the 1890s. The product supposedly contained substances extracted from a hitherto unknown vegetable source by a fictitious chemist known as Charles Forde..
US
Credit line
Photo12/Universal Images Group/Buyenlarge
Reference
UMG20B32_381
Model release
No
Property release
No
License type
Rights managed
Available size
9,6Mb (1,3Mb) / 5,1in x 7,4in / 1518 x 2217 (300dpi)