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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 30, 2020

‘Watchy Gordon’

I have always been fascinated with our ability [evolved] to keep ‘track of time’.

Categories: Family history, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: Antiquary, Christina Cruickshank, clock, clockmaker, clocks, Dufftown, Dylan thomas, Hole Ousia, in his kitchen full of time, Notes on the old clockmakers, Past and Present (to catch the watcher's eye), Peter Gordon, rebel antiquary, Scotland, Social maverick, The Antiquary, The past and the Pending, The Rebel Antiquary, time passes, time passes listen, track of time, watches, watchmaker, watchy Gordon, William Gordon

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