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By Hole Ousia Posted on September 28, 2022September 28, 2022

The pestling of the Hippocratic oath by a market-driven world

I have come to consider mortar & pestle pharmacy signs as representing the pestling of the Hippocratic oath by a market-driven world, aided and abetted by existential fear. One of … Continue reading The pestling of the Hippocratic oath by a market-driven world

Categories: History of medicine, Medical Education, Medical humanities, Narrative medicine, Pharmaceutical industry and Medical Education, Philosophy, Sunshine Act for Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: Apothecary, Boots, Buckstone, chemist, chemists, Colinton, Cupar, Doctor Marigold’s prescriptions, druggist, Dufftown, Dumfries, existential fear, Forres, Gabriel García Márquez, Galston, Gilbert Farie, Gilbert Farie Revisited, Gordons, Haddington, Hippocrates, Hole Ousia, How much is too much medicine, Huntly, In a time of too much medicine, Ivan Illich, Jekyll and Hyde, Linlithgow, Living to tell the Tale, market-driven, McDuff, mortar, mortar and pestle, Nairn, Oban, Omphalos, Omphalos films, one-third gin and two-thirds Ginger Beer, over-medicalisation, over-prescribing, Perth, pestle, pestling of the Hippocratic oath, Peter J Gordon, Pharmacy, pharmacy signs, PRAM, Prescribed harm, primum non nocere, Realistic Medicine, Realistic Psychiatry, reductionism, Robert Louis Stevenson, Royal Mile, Scotland, Stockbridge, Strathallan pharmacy, The Antiquary, The pestling of the Hippocratic oath by a market-driven world, to prescribe is to aquire property over the course of time, Too much Medicine, Unrealistic Medicine, windows and doors, You think so much of yoursel

By Hole Ousia Posted on May 25, 2022May 26, 2022

the milk run

The milk run: To play this short film please click here or on the title above. Music credit: I Could Be Happy (F Sessions) – by Nouvelle Vague

Categories: Family history, gardens, Omphalos films, This is Not yesterdayTags: Altered Images, Antiquary, Bonaly, bramblings, Colinton, Dunsyre, Hole Ousia, I could be happy, Little Sparta, Milk round, Mrs Picken, newspaper boy, Nouvelle Vague, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Poor Old Tired Horse, rebel antiquary, Social maverick, The Antiquary, The Magic Roundabout, The Milk Round, the passing of youth, The Rebel Antiquary, time passes listen, Wild Hawthorn Press

By Hole Ousia Posted on February 10, 2021

GORGET OINTMENT

I have had a longstanding interest in old pharmacy and chemist shops. This interest began in childhood! One of my earliest memories was from my pram: above me I could … Continue reading GORGET OINTMENT

Categories: Architecture, History of medicine, Medical Education, Medical humanities, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: 163 year old landmark, 19 Grassmarket, A I McCallum, Alexander Inglis McCallum, an 18th century pharmacy closes, Antiquary, Apothecary, April 1960, Boots, Buckstone, C G Drummond, chemist, chemists, Colinton, Cupar, died on the same day, Doctor Marigold’s prescriptions, druggist, Dufftown, Dumfries, Edinburgh, existential fear, Forres, Gabriel García Márquez, Galston, Gilbert Farie, Gilbert Farie Revisited, Gordons, Gorget Ointment, Grassmarket, H B Wyllie, Haddington, Harry Boak Wyllie, Hippocrates, Hole Ousia, How much is too much medicine, Huntly, In a time of too much medicine, Ivan Illich, Jekyll and Hyde, Linlithgow, Living to tell the Tale, McDuff, mortar, mortar and pestle, Nairn, Oban, Omphalos, Omphalos films, one-third gin and two-thirds Ginger Beer, over-medicalisation, over-prescribing, Perth, pestle, Peter J Gordon, Pharmacy, pharmacy signs, PRAM, Prescribed harm, primum non nocere, Realistic Medicine, Realistic Psychiatry, rebel antiquary, reductionism, Robert Louis Stevenson, Royal Mile, Scotland, Social maverick, Strathallan pharmacy, The Antiquary, The chemist and Druggist, The long day closes, The Rebel Antiquary, to prescribe is to aquire property over the course of time, Too much Medicine, Unrealistic Medicine, windows and doors, You think so much of yoursel

By Hole Ousia Posted on December 4, 2020June 12, 2022

For my mum and dad

Please click on each image to play each short film on Edinburgh. These films are for my mum and dad. Mrs Picken, an elderly widow, who day after day, year … Continue reading For my mum and dad

Categories: Architecture, Family history, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Poems, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 153 High Street, 1844, 1904, 1908, 44 Scotland Street, A Far Cry from Kensington, A Sunshine Act for Scotland, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, Abbotsford, ageing, Ageing stone, air-raid shelter, Albyn's Anthology, Alexander McCall Smith, Allan Ramsay, Allan Ramsay's House, Andrew Robert Gordon, Antiquary, Baron Grantley, Baudolino, beautiful summer, Bonaly, Bonaly Tower, Bridge of Allan, bring me sunshine, Bute House, By living we learn, Calcutta Cup, Caledonian Antisyzygy, Calton Old Burial Ground, Cammo, Cammo - I want to be part of history, Canongate, Canonmills, canonmills loch, Carubber's Manse, Castlebank Laundry, Charlotte Square, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Christopher Lloyd, Cities in Evolution, Colinton, Constance Gibson, Constance Scott, Constitution Street, Controlled Fury, cradle of the legitimate drama, Craiglockhart, Craigmillar Laundry, Damon Albarn, David Livingstone, David Peters, dawdle to sniff the beauty of the world, Deborah Levy, designed for use in a rebellion, distressed furniture, Do not say we have nothing, Dr Peter Gordon, Dr Samuel Brown, Due North, Dunira, Dunira's Lost garden, Edinburgh, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh half-marathon, Edinburgh marathon, Edinburgh Zoo, Eyre Terrace, Falcon Hall, Films about Edinburgh, films on Edinburgh, Fletcher Norton, Florence Nightingale, Follow Me, Francis Seymour Haden, Freedom to speak up, From Scotland with Love, Full of Energy, Gabriel García Márquez, garden, gardener, gateways, Geoffrey Jellicoe, George Saunders, Gilmerton House, Girdwood, Glasgow, Go North, Half of a yellow sun, Hatton, Hawkhill, Hawkhill House, Henry Dundas, Hermits and Termits, histories never end but go on living in their consequences, Hole Ousia, House of Shaws, I had a project as a tiny boy, Indy-Ref, Iron gate sensitivity, IS WASHDAY WORTHWHILE?, It is by living we learn, James Clerk Maxwell, James Georgeson, Jessie lennox, Joan Bakewell, Joan Bakewell with Richard Holloway: Moving On, John Berger, John Lanchester, John Wilson, Joseph Gerrald, keepsake, King George IV Park, Kipps, labour of omission, Leaving Alexandria, Left-behind gateway, Liberty, lion rampant, Lost Edinburgh: The Royal Patent Gymnasium, magically reached out, Mary Brooksbank, Maurice Margarot, Mavisbank, meet you at the statue, meet you at the statue in an hour, Methven Simpson, MLA distinction, Modern Athenians, Monument to the Political Martyrs', Morningside, moving on, Mrs Picken, Muriel Spark, Murrayfield, Murrayfield stadium, mushrooms, Napier Road, Network 3, Network 3 [voices], New Town, newspaper boy, Nick Cave, Nobel prize, Nooks and Crannies, Nor' loch, North Loch, Omphalos, Omphalos films, ORPHAN Hospital [ Site of], P J Harvey, Pale Fire, Partick Geddes, Past and present, Past and Present (to catch the watcher's eye), Patrick Geddes, Patrick Neil, Patriothall, Patriothall Laundry, patriotic, Paul Buchanan, PE1493, Penelope Fitzgerald, Peter Gordon, Peter John Gordon, Peter's films on Edinburgh, Physic Garden, Pipe Lane, Pipe Lane Public Toilets, Platform 11, Playhouse Close, poem, Poems, poet, poetry, Polaris, Police Boxes, Political Martyrs, Prince Street, Princes Street Gardens, Prodrums, Rachel Fiona Gordon, rebel antiquary, Repeats its love, Richard Holloway, Robert Fergusson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Sibbald, Rockville, Rodney Tunnel, Rose, Royal Bank of Scotland, Royal Patent Gymnasium, rugby, Saughton, Scotland, Scotland Street, Scotland Street Station, Scotland Street tunnel, Scottish Chapter Prize, Scottish Government, Scottish National Exhibition, Scottish National Gallery, Scottish Parliament, Scottish vocalist, Shakespeare, Shakespeare Square, she said, She said nothing and she shone, Sian Fiona Williams, Silvermills, smash out into the sunlight, Smash out into the sunshine, Social maverick, Spurtle, St Andrew Square, St Andrew's House, St Andrew's Square, St Leonard's Improvement Scheme, statue, steam laundry, Stockbridge, Sunshine Act for Scotland, Survives as a pair of gate-posts far away, Sylvia Plath, Tapestry of Scotland, The Antiquary, the black lady, The BMJ, The cost of living, The friends of liberty, the gate of Angels, The Great Tapestry of Scotland, the laundry problem, The making of the future, The Rebel Antiquary, The Royal Patent Gymnasium, the scandal of the century, The Scottish National Exhibition, the texture of time, The Ticking of Two Clocks, The wall, the warld's ill-divided, The well tempered garden, Theatre, This plethora of detail, thistle, Thomas Fyshe Palmer, Thomas Muir, Thomas Transtömer, time passes listen, Tiny Desk Concerts, Tom Jones, Tomas Transtromer, Tomb of the Red lady, Traditionalism: Edinburgh's dilemma, Umberto Eco, Vivendo Discimus, Vladimir Nabokov, Waiting for the last bus, Walter Scott, Warriston Cemetery, Waverley, weather bomb, Well tempered Garden, wheesht to your omphaloi, wheesht to your omphalos, Wilfred owen, William Henry Playfair, William Skirving, Wrecking Edinburgh, [in its ending] Scotland Street Station

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