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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
In an archive [I have forgotten which archive] I came across these ‘before’ photographs of St Leonard’s, Edinburgh. I have tried to make something of them. Music credit: ‘Idiot Prayer’ … Continue reading ‘MALGON’
A ‘SPEEDY CURE’ and ‘INFALLIBLE SAFEGUARD’ as advertised in the Dundee Courier, 25 November 1911.
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