A superbly humorous 16pp almanac ginned up entirely for the promotion of J. E. Hetherington's anti-constipation drops. The front cover image of a very evidently constipated gentleman contemplating the dreaded pill is untraced elsewhere and likely original. After this is a rather lengthy 1 page essay on the evils of taking pills, then a Sketch of the History of Political Parties, Including Notices of Slavery in Indiana, The Monroe Doctrine, Protective Tarrifs, Anti-Slavery Societies, Locofocos, The Civil War, The Thirteenth Amendment, The Emancipation Proclamation, etc., Then a Section Entitled [in all bold, caps] CONSTIPATION. THE BANE OF CIVILIZATION!, a section on the wonder working laxitive properties of tropical fruits, physician and druggist opinions, etc. 

[Advertisements; Commercial Almanac]. J. E. Hetherington [Ed.] An Almanac for J. E. Hetherington's Tropic-Fruit Laxative Drops. New York. 1886. 16pp.

Very good, and we do not trace another example. Printed on faint pink paper and remarkably well preserved.