This led to an 1897 Board of Trade report, which reported that a pharmacist was treating people in distress after having travelled on the railway with his 'Metropolitan Mixture'.
Dette førte til en rapport fra Handelskammeret i 1897, hvori det fremgik, at en farmaceut behandlede mennesker, der var forpint efter at have rejst på jernbanen, med sin "Metropolitan-mikstur".