English

Noun

blue pill ‎(plural blue pills)

1. blue mass
   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 3,

     He scarcely knew a single soul in the metropolis: and were it not for his doctor, and the society of his blue-pill, and his liver complaint, he must have died of loneliness.

   • 1909, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea, Chapter 27,

     " […] I'm getting old and it doesn't agree with me. I know I'll be fearfully cranky by the time I'm sixty. But perhaps all I need is a course of blue pills."