“Hasheesh Candy” was promoted as a cure-all in the 1860s. Suppliers could hardly contain their enthusiasm when composing their ads, as can be seen in the one below from the Philadelphia Inquirer (December 23, 1865).
READ! READ! READ!
HASHEESH CANDY. HASHEESH CANDY.
HASHEESH CANDY. HASHEESH CANDY.
HASHEESH CANDY. HASHEESH CANDY.
HASHEESH CANDY. HASHEESH CANDY.
HASHEESH CANDY. HASHEESH CANDY.
HASHEESH CANDY. HASHEESH CANDY.
HASHEESH CANDY. HASHEESH CANDY.
HASHEESH CANDY. HASHEESH CANDY.
HASHEESH CANDY. HASHEESH CANDY.
HASHEESH CANDY. HASHEESH CANDY.
HASHEESH CANDY. HASHEESH CANDY.
HASHEESH CANDY. HASHEESH CANDY.
CURES NERVOUSNESS.
CURES RESTLESSNESS.
CURES HEADACHE.
CURES NEURALGIA.
CURES RHEUMATISM.
CURES SORE THROAT.
CURES SORE LUNGS.
CURES ASTHMA.
CURES IMPOTENCE.
CURES CHILLS AND FEVER.
CURES COUGHS AND COLDS.
CURES INCIPIENT CONSUMPTION.
Hasheesh is no new remedy, and Hasheesh Candy is only the name given to the genuine Oriental Hasheesh, prepared and confectioned in such a shape as to render it a safe, delightful and popular medicine, to be taken without any of the disagreeable associations connected with almost every other medical preparation, and wherever introduced, soon takes the place of all other remedies, not only for the above named diseases, but for every disease caused by any derangement of the nervous system.
Call for it at the Druggists. Do not be put off if they have not kept it. Procure it by all means, and a very short trial will convince you of the truth of this advertisement.
For sale by JOHNSON, HOLLOWAY & COWDEN, and other leading wholesale houses.
Contracts with wholesale dealers made with the Proprietor, Agent’s Office, No. 630 CHESTNUT Street.
