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| Author(s): | P. Homan, B. Hudson and R. Rowe |
| Publisher: | Pharmaceutical Press |
| ISBN: | 9780853697282 |
| Format: | softback |
| 182pp | |
| Price: | £24.95 |
| Review Date: | 11 December 2007 |
| Review: | This book looks at twenty-one popular medicines that the public once bought in the belief that they could cure their illnesses. In Britain, as far back as the 1100s and 1200s, sellers of spices began compounding such medicines – the first recorded apothecary’s shop selling medicines was in 1345. In 1841 chemists, druggists and some apothecaries combined to form the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, the publishing arm of which published this book. The medicines include: Beecham’s Pills; Bile Beans; Carter’s Little Liver Pills; Poor Man’s Friend Ointment; Dr William’s Pink Pills for Pale People; Woodward’s Gripe Water etc. Each chapter gives the history of the pills and the pharmaceutical formula. |