A valuable medical discovery
I was born and raised in Edinburgh and used to fish the Water of Leith with my friends and we bought our fishing tackle and bait from a shop in … Continue reading A valuable medical discovery
Tag: pharmacy
Flooded the English speaking world with their advertisements
Bile Beans was a laxative and tonic first marketed in the 1890s. The product supposedly contained substances extracted from a hitherto unknown vegetable source by a fictitious chemist known as … Continue reading Flooded the English speaking world with their advertisements
EVERY EDINBORO’ HOME
I came across this advertisement when doing research for a film that I am making. The advert is for ZAM-BUK and was printed in the Edinburgh Evening News, 18 September … Continue reading EVERY EDINBORO’ HOME
“WHO SHOULD SELL POISONS?”
As printed in the Dundee Evening Post, Thursday 24 January 1901:
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
VALDA PASTILLES
A ‘SPEEDY CURE’ and ‘INFALLIBLE SAFEGUARD’ as advertised in the Dundee Courier, 25 November 1911.