What condiment was sold in the 1830's as medicine?

John Cook Bennett (1804-1867) was an American physician and briefly a ranking and influential leader of the Latter Day Saint movement. Beginning in 1835, Bennett was an early champion of the health benefits of the tomato.

He sold tomato ketchup as a medicine, claiming to cure ailments like diarrhea, indigestion, jaundice, and rheumatism. He sold the recipe in the form of "tomato pills". Once Dr. Bennett's pills hit the market, brigades of copycats began selling their own tomato-based pills. Unfortunately, some of these copycats simply sold laxatives with no trace of tomatoes. They also made wild claims that their pills could cure everything from scurvy to mend bones. Due to the false claims, the ketchup medicine empire reportedly collapsed in the 1850's.