Ergoapiol capsules in a yellow and orange tin

Ergoapiol capsules in a yellow and orange tin with Instructions. Tin hold 20 yellow capsules and 5 are still in the 2” x 4” x 1/2” tin. Martin H. Smith Co. Pharmaceutical Chemists. New York. “piol” is an organic chemical compound also known as parsley apiol or parsley camphor. Hippocrates wrote about parsley as a herb to cause an abortion. Plants containing apiol were used by women in the Middle Ages to terminate pregnancies. (Information taken from Wikipedia.) DATE: Circa 1937.
In Ernest Hemingway's 1937 novel To Have and Have Not, Helen Gordon gives her husband Richard a tongue-lashing during a quarrel.“Everything I believed in and everything I cared about I left for you because you were so wonderful and you loved me so much that love was all that mattered…Love was what we had that no one else had or could ever have. And you were a genius and I was your whole life. I was your partner and your little black flower. Slop. Love is just another dirty lie. Love is ergoapiol pills to make me come around because you were afraid to have a baby. Love is quinine and quinine and quinine until I’m deaf with it…Love is my insides all messed up. It's half catheters and half whirling douches. I know about love…. All right. I'm through with you and I'm through with love.” (page 185-86)