Gayetty's paper, first introduced in 1857, was available as late
as the 1920's. Gayetty's Medicated Paper was sold in packages of
flat sheets, somewhat like Kleenex boxes. Original
advertisements for the product used the tagline "The greatest
necessity of the age! Gayetty's medicated paper for the water-
closet." Seth Wheeler of Albany, New York, obtained the earliest
patents for toilet paper and dispensers, the types of which
eventually were in common usage in the US. Gayetty first
marketed toilet paper in 1857 which originally sold for $0.50
U.S. Dollars in packs of 500 bearing a watermark of his name.
The original product contained aloe as a lubricant and was
marketed as an anti-hemorrhoid medical product. Gayetty's
product was licensed to other manufacturers and sold as late as
the 1920's.