Comments on: Charles Forde's Bile Beans for Biliousness

By: Another Mystery Mariner | Looking at Filey

Another Mystery Mariner | Looking at Filey — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 17:55:26 +0000

[...] Charles Forde didn’t exist but Charles Edward FULFORD was real enough, as was his partner in the Bile Bean Manufacturing Company, Ernest Albert GILBERT. After failing to sell Gould’s Tiny Tonic Pills in great numbers they hit pay dirt with Bile Beans. For the most part they stuck to a claim that the ‘eminent scientist’ Charles Forde had discovered Australian aborigines using healing extracts of roots and herbs and that it was these ingredients that were combined so effectively in the Beans. Occasionally their imaginations overheated and there are some old ads claiming that Captain Cook discovered Bile Beans. The Beans were actually a compound of aloin (an aloe extract with laxative properties), cardamom, peppermint oil and wheat flour with a black gelatin coating (Source: The Quack Doctor). [...]

By: Caro

Caro — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 08:34:28 +0000

Brilliant present – I would love to receive things like that for Christmas!

By: Essers

Essers — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:07:53 +0000

I just received a lovely tin of Bile Beans for Christmas – and, after some effort, managed to open the tin, and lo! it was still full of Bile Beans! All in their little twists of paper… See here http://www.flickr.com/photos/essers/sets/72157623361057206/

By: Bile Beans, part 2 « The Quack Doctor

Bile Beans, part 2 « The Quack Doctor — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:52:24 +0000

[...] on from a previous post about the Bile Beans for Biliousness, Jane Ellen, Senior Archivist at the University of Melbourne Archives kindly sent me this image, [...]

By: Twitted by historytoday

Twitted by historytoday — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:29:28 +0000

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