{"id":210,"date":"2004-07-21T17:25:32","date_gmt":"2004-07-21T21:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2004\/07\/21\/liver-pills\/"},"modified":"2004-07-21T17:25:32","modified_gmt":"2004-07-21T21:25:32","slug":"liver-pills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2004\/07\/21\/liver-pills\/","title":{"rendered":"Liver Pills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a456'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/features\/lifestyle\/la-et-neuman21jul21,1,6248066.story?coll=la-home-style\">read<\/a> today that West Virginia believes in &#8220;God Almighty, Sears Roebuck, Carter&#8217;s Little Liver Pills and Robert C. Byrd&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This clears up an old mystery, which I haven&#8217;t thought of in years.  My mother&#8217;s mother used to use a phrase, &#8220;He has more [x] than Carter had liver pills&#8221;.  An example: my gramma had more old-time phrases in her vocabulary than Carter had liver pills.<\/p>\n<p>I was always kinda like, &#8220;Huh!  Who knew Jimmy Carter had liver problems!  Old people sure do know some stuff!&#8221;  But over the years I heard no other reference to this malady of his.<\/p>\n<p>Today I&#8217;ve found out that the pills were actually a sort of patent medicine.  They were sold from before her birth until, apparently, the 1960s.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/desultor\/wtl038371.jpg\" height=\"413\" width=\"280\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/desultor\/carter.jpg\" height=\"504\" width=\"378\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>She lived in different times.  I miss her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read today that West Virginia believes in &#8220;God Almighty, Sears Roebuck, Carter&#8217;s Little Liver Pills and Robert C. Byrd&#8221; This clears up an old mystery, which I haven&#8217;t thought of in years. My mother&#8217;s mother used to use a phrase, &#8220;He has more [x] than Carter had liver pills&#8221;. An example: my gramma had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}