The promotion of Morison's Vegetable Pills in the 1830s and 1840s was not only ubiquitous but also excessive, promising cures for a wide spectrum of ailments, including tuberculosis, jaundice, and tic douloureux (see also Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1988-102-14). Not surprisingly, such immoderate claims provoked critical and satirical reaction. Grant's print shows the frightening- but humorous--side effects produced when a green grocer was caught in the rain after having taken "132 Boxes of Vegetables Pills"; since this event occurred on April 1, however, it cannot be meant to be taken too seriously. William H. Helfand, from The Picture of Health: Images of Medicine and Pharmacy from the William H. Helfand Collection (1991), p. 85.