Story: Medicines and remedies

Bonnington's Irish Moss is a syrup used to treat coughs and sore throats. It was invented by 19th-century settler George Bonnington at his home in Richmond, Nelson. He manufactured it on a large scale from the 1860s and it became one of the best-known patent medicines in New Zealand. His firm, George Bonnington Limited, operated until the 1970s. In the 2000s, Bonnington's Irish Moss was manufactured and sold by the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline New Zealand.