---
title: Times and Seasons
description: Issues of 1840 to 1841.
authors:
  - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
editors:
  - Ebenezer Robinson
  - Don Carlos Smith
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
  - Taylor, John
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - newspaper
  - times-and-seasons
  - nauvoo
  - nineteenth-century
periodical: Times and Seasons
volume: 2
number: 1
published: 1840-11-01
publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor
publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois
language: en
type: article
reference: "“Bliss' Purgative,” *Times and Seasons* 2, no. 1 (November 1, 1840): 208."
printed_title: BLISS' PURGATIVE
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1840-11-01_2_1
  transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v2n01.htm), with its page breaks; this Internet Archive scan is the reference copy (its OCR was used only as a witness for OCR repair)
  identifier: per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1840-11-01_2_1
start_page: 208
end_page: 208
curator_note: A Mormon newspaper published by the church in Nauvoo; included for historical study. Inclusion does not imply endorsement.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1840 (Nauvoo, Illinois); published before 1931, so public domain in the United States
  source: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1840-11-01_2_1
  publication_year: 1840
---

# Bliss' Purgative

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Billious [bilious] Pills.

These Pills are an effectual remedy for all disorders arising from a deranged state of the stomach and bowels-as Indigestion or Dyspepsia, Cholic [colic], Constipation, and especially for all billious [bilious] affections, incident to warm climates, or an unhealthy atmosphere.-When taken at the commencement or forming stage of fever, so as thoroughly to evacuate the bowels, they will, nine cases in ten, cut short the disease. Price 25 cents per box. Also,