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By Hole Ousia Posted on September 28, 2022March 22, 2023

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: Antiquary, Apothecary, Boots, Buckstone, chemist, chemists, Colinton, Cupar, Doctor Marigold’s prescriptions, Dr Peter Gordon, 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 Gordon, 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, Stockbridge, Strathallan pharmacy, The Antiquary, The pestling of the Hippocratic oath by a market-driven world, 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 February 10, 2021March 6, 2023

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, Dr Peter Gordon, 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, I have had a longstanding interest in old pharmacy and chemist shops, 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 of my earliest memories was from my pram: above me I could see a golden mortar & pestle [the Pharmacy sign outside the Chemist shop], one-third gin and two-thirds Ginger Beer, over-medicalisation, over-prescribing, Perth, pestle, Peter Gordon, 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

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