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Victorian pharmacy rediscovering remedies and recipes

Eastoe, Jane.

Victorian pharmacy rediscovering remedies and recipes by Jane Eastoe with Ruth Goodman. - London Pavilion 2010. - 224 pages illustrations (some color) 24 cm

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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.

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.

ISBN: 9781862058903 (hbk.)

Standard No.: 4219.137915

Nat. Bib. No.: GBB037846

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Pharmacy--History--19th century.
Traditional medicine--History.
Medicine--History.
Materia medica--History.
Pharmacognosy--History--19th century.
Pharmaceutical industry--History--19th century.
Pharmaceutical Preparations.

Dewey Class. No.: 615.1094

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