Small circular box containing small pills. Paper label reads "pill aloes..." and second label reads "one or two pills for a dose". The aloe vera plant is a perennial succulent that grows mostly in tropical and subtropical climates. Its thick, spiky leaves are broken off to release a clear gel that's commonly used to treat and heal various skin conditions, including burns, rashes and wounds. Bond/Hadlow, <1862, p. 15: “ Aloes. This drug, softened by heat and made into pills, may be taken in doses of from 5 to 15 grains; it is a bitter stimulating purgative, and is particularly serviceable to obviate the costiveness of persons of a sedentary habit, and for female obstructions; for persons of a plethoric habit, in pregnancy, or where inflammation or irritation exists in the bowels or neighbouring parts, it is not so proper; as from its heating and irritative quality, it is apt to induce haemorrhage, or produce piles. On the contrary, in phlegmatic constitutions, it is of considerable benefit, and is much resorted to in cases of indigestion, intestinal worms, jaundice, and in all those disorders called bilious in which warm laxatives are admissible. It is, however, advisable to avoid the use of this purgative in inflammatory conditions, and organic diseases of the liver, more particularly when connected with biliary calculi.”