. . . writing from Teheran, Persia to the “London Times,” remarks:– “A [Cathartic] Pill, manufactured by “an American Chemist,” (DR. J. C. AYER, of Lowell, Mass.,) has cured the Shah of a Liver Complaint that threatened his life. This simple fact, as might be expected renders the American immensely popular here, while we English are over looked. Doubtless our own scholars made the discoveries which he employs, and thus it is in everything; we do the labor, then the mousing Americans put their makes on it and take the reward. Doctor Ayer is idolized by the Court and its retainers here, which will doubtless be reflected to him on a gold snuff box, or diamond hilted sword, while not the name even of Davy, Christison or Brodie – the great lights by which he shines, is known.” – New York Sunday Paper.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, March 4, 1862, p. 2
