being and becoming in the world
This is an old piece of writing. It was written over a decade ago. The ‘Ten considerations’ are based on titles of creative works by Robert Louis Stevenson: Gilbert Farie, … Continue reading Gilbert Farie: Ten considerations
At the time of making this film, nearly 1 in 5 Scots are taking antidepressants. Many are taking them indefinitely. The Scottish Pharmacist: To play this short film please click … Continue reading The Scottish Pharmacist
MUNYON’S SEASONAL ADVICE, Edinburgh Evening News, 9 May 1898: “DON’T TAKE MEDICINE UNLESS YOU ARE ILL. STRONG DRUGS KILL MORE PEOPLE THAN WAR AND PESTILENCE COMBINED. UNIVERSAL PRESCRIBING WITH CURE-ALLS … Continue reading MUNYON’S SEASONAL ADVICE
This coming weekend, Strathallan Pharmacy, Bridge of Allan, will move into new premises: Local time passed into history: To watch ‘Local time passed into history’ please click here. Thank you: … Continue reading Local time passed into history
Thomas Holloway [1800-1883] was the pioneer of mass advertising, the founder of product placement, a driving force behind the establishment of the pharmaceutical industry and a champion of mental health … Continue reading ‘Would have had a placebo effect at best’
Sales details of the shop, furniture and medicines of Dr Boswell, as published in the Caledonian Mercury 25 February 1748.
John Quincy was apprenticed to an apothecary, and afterwards practised medicine as an apothecary in London. He died in 1722. John Quincy knew little of clinical medicine, and was only … Continue reading “The whole Doctrine of that Art”
I came across this advert in the Caledonian Mercury of the 18th January 1750: Godfrey’s Cordial was a patent medicine, containing laudanum (tincture of opium) in a sweet syrup. The … Continue reading Dr Benjamin Godfrey’s Cordiall