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Coated in pink-coloured sugar, an analysis of the pills conducted in 1909 for the
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In 1890, G. T. Fulford & Company purchased the rights to produce Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People for $ 53.01 after encountering a pill prescribed by a local physician, William
Jackson, and began marketing it through Dr. Williams Medicine Company. Reverend Enoch Hill of M.E. Church of
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failed, Europeans could always rely on the Pink Pills to alleviate the pressures of bearing the white man's burden." The Pink Pills were not only marketed in Europe; tales of its "wonder" spread even to Egypt.
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