Liver Pills
I read today that West Virginia believes in “God Almighty, Sears Roebuck, Carter’s Little Liver Pills and Robert C. Byrd”
This clears up an old mystery, which I haven’t thought of in years. My mother’s mother used to use a phrase, “He has more [x] than Carter had liver pills”. An example: my gramma had more old-time phrases in her vocabulary than Carter had liver pills.
I was always kinda like, “Huh! Who knew Jimmy Carter had liver problems! Old people sure do know some stuff!” But over the years I heard no other reference to this malady of his.
Today I’ve found out that the pills were actually a sort of patent medicine. They were sold from before her birth until, apparently, the 1960s.
She lived in different times. I miss her.
September 25th, 2007 at 11:11 am
are they still available?
September 26th, 2007 at 1:12 pm
I think they stopped being made in the 1960s. But it looks like maybe you can still get them on ebay!
November 12th, 2007 at 8:29 pm
i read that they had to change the name since it had nothing to do with the liver. they called it carter little pills. but the name was not as catchy so they went under
March 27th, 2008 at 10:22 pm
My mother says this phrase all the time, and I thought the same thing…what in the world did a liver pill have to do with Jimmy Carter?
November 14th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
This is so funny that this info is out here. Just today I used this phrase while speaking with my husband. Who by the way prides himself on knowing EVERYTHING to do with politics. So he said “what in the world did you say”. So I repeated and he said like many of us have. “What does liver pills have to do with Jimmy Carter”. I of course defended the phrase that my father said so many times when I was a kid. It just stuck in my vocabulary. Then I started thinking maybe I should research it and prove to him that my father knew exactly what he was talking about. Amagine my surprise!
September 23rd, 2009 at 10:38 am
They now sell the same formulation as “Carter’s Stimulant Laxative”, which was the only thing it ever did, (make people go, well, you know). The active ingredient is the same thing you find in Ducolax (bisacodyl).
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