H. _The Toadstool Millionaires, A Social History of Patent
Medicines in America Before Federal Regulation._ Princeton University
Press. 1961.

Early in the present century, during the "exposure" of the
patent-medicine industry, two principal critical works also were
published, each highly specific and naming names fearlessly:

Adams, Samuel Hopkins. _The Great American Fraud._ Serially in
_Collier's_ Magazine in 1905-1906. (Reprinted in book form, 1906.)

American Medical Association. _Nostrums and Quackery._ Chicago: American
Medical Association Press. (Reprints from the _Journal of the American
Medical Association_: volume I, 1911; volume II, 1921; volume III,
1936.)

Recently two books have appeared, which are largely pictorial,
essentially uncritical, and strive mainly to recapture the colorfulness
and ingenuity of patent-medicine advertising.

Carson, Gerald. _One for a Man, Two for a Horse._ 128 pages. New York
City: Doubleday and Co. 1961.

Hechtlinger, Adelaide. _The Great Patent Medicine Era._ New York City:
Grosset and Dunlap. 1970.

A highly recommended source of information on the very early history of
patent medicines in America is:

Griffenhagen, George B., and James Harvey Young. Old English Patent
Medicines in America. _United States National Museum Bulletin 218,
Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology_, paper 10:
155-183 1959.

DR. MORSE'S PILLS LIVE ON

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 Co