The fight for the standard: Ayer's Pills. Abstract: Advertisement for Ayer's Pills. Statement on verso claims the medication will cure "constipation or costiveness, indigestion, dyspepsia, biliousness, heartburn, loss of appetite, flatulency, foul stomach, nausea, dizziness, headache, numbness, jaundice, diarrhoea, dysentery, and disorders of the liver." Card features a military scene involving two soldiers on horses fighting. One soldier is holding a flag that says, "Ayer's Pills." Original public domain image from Flickr