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HERBALIST IN TROUBLE. [Per Press Association.] OAMARU, Last Night. An interesting case was heard In the Magistrate’s Court to-day, when Robert Agnew Thompson, practising as a herbalist, was charged that he was keeping open a shop for retailing poison, not being a registered vendor. Evidence was given by several witnesses that they had gone to Thomp son’s shop for a “pick me up," and had afterwards become seriously ill Some of them had consulted doctors, and been sent to the hosptal. The medical evidence was to the effect that the men w r ho received the “pick me up,” suffered from acrophine poisoning. It was suspected that a certain mixture contained belladonna. After hearing evidence the Magistrate adjourned the case for fourteen days, to enable an analysis to be mado of two mixtures named in the evidence.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3599, 3 April 1924, Page 4
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