Some new medicines could also cause severe problems. Laudanum, for ex, which be…

Some new medicines could also cause severe problems. Laudanum, for ex, which became popular as a medicine in Georgian times, is another name for opium. Laudanum was prescribed for all sorts of ailments – pain, sleeplessness, anxiety, and general ill-health. It must have been extremely effective in the short term; the long-term effect, however, was to turn patients into drug addicts. This image, however, is about the blue ruin (Gin).

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