MS 198: Dr. John Bull's Celebrated Pills

These peppy powerhouse pills cure constipation, headache, sour stomach, torpid liver, bad breath, and female complaints among other disorders. Ingredients unknown. Find out more from Powell Family Medical Bag, GAF-0214, McGovern Historical Center.

Photographed by Andre Hermann, a Houston based portrait and documentary photographer and professor of photography at Houston Community College. His fascination for the human condition, street photograph and the iPhone inspired him to explore diverse social topics, from homeless metal thieves, rare disease, food justice, inner-city boxing and other topics. He explored medical objects held in the Texas Medical Center Library's McGovern Historical Center. Find out more at McGovern Historical Center Archive.