TY - BOOK AU - Eastoe, Jane. TI - Victorian pharmacy: rediscovering remedies and recipes SN - 9781862058903 (hbk.) U1 - 615.1094 PY - 2010/// CY - London PB - Pavilion KW - Pharmacy KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Traditional medicine KW - Medicine KW - Materia medica KW - Pharmacognosy KW - Pharmaceutical industry KW - Pharmaceutical Preparations N1 - TV tie-in; Foreword -- Introduction -- Public health -- Medicine and disease -- The chemist and his shop -- Poison -- Potions, powders, perfumes and pills -- 2000 items in stock -- The appliances of science N2 - Follows the fascinating story of the emergency of high street healthcare in the form of the chemist's shop and the products on offer. Investigates which pills, potions, tonics and cures were available-- some effective, some deadly, and some still with us today ER -