@article {Rowe:2003:1364-9027:137, author = "Rowe R.C.", title = "Bile Beans: For Inner Health", journal = "International Journal of Pharmaceutical Medicine", volume = "17", year = "2003", abstract = "Bile beans was a very popular proprietary medicine during the twentieth century in the UK. The product consisted of a variety of purgatives, cholagogues and carminatives formulated into a pill and advertised for ‘inner health’. The product was devised in Australia in 1899, survived a damning judgement in a law court in Scotland in 1905, became a brand leader in the 1930s and was on sale until the mid-1980s.", pages = "137-140(4)", url = "http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/adis/ipm/2003/00000017/F0020003/art00007" }