This poster advertised a patent medicine made by a Dunedin Chemist, Loasby's, in the 1890s. The medicine claimed to cure nervousness, exhaustion, indigestion, constipation and a sluggish liver. Such patent medicines were widespread in colonial New Zealand, and usually they included opium as one of their ingredients, and sometimes cannabis.
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