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Victorian Pharmacy
In ‘Victorian Pharmacy’, historian Ruth Goodman, Professor Nick Barber and PhD student Tom Quick recreate an authentic 19th Century pharmacy.
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This Historical observational documentary series discover the world of the pharmacy at the beginning of Queen Victoria’s reign in 1837 – a world where traditional remedies such as leeches, oil of earthworm and potions laced with cannabis and opium were popular and regularly used.
Ruth Goodman, Nick Barber and Ruth Goodman, Tom Quick take on the challenges of the 1850s and 60s, a time when overcrowded and unsanitary living conditions had reached their peak, leading to unprecedented outbreaks of disease; they try some Victorian remedies on volunteers such as the bronchial kettle and leather ‘plaister’ and see how they fare when compared to the modern treatments for these breathing related ailments, that were quite widespread during that era.
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o wow…you are lucky to have seen this in real life! id love to have seen it.
Blists Hill is an awesome place (I’m lucky to have seen all this in real life)
@Angelusismine Good point! I hadn’t considered that.
@miriamjwoods We know they don’t do anything now, but in olden times, they had no way of knowing if they were harmless – for all they knew, it was some kind of Lethal Disease~
Do you really need to “treat” a bruise? I get bruises all the time and they just go away on their own. What a waste of good, innocent, soil-enriching earthworms.
this reminds me of the black country museum =) x**
@thepixieful Amazing to know that you still have a profitable old style pharmacy. In London, where I live, our pharmacy dates from Edwardian times and the original fittings survived into the 1970s before being replaced.
more of these shows please, and less of Big brother and bargain hunt
P.S. indian frankensense is now/again used for asthma and it worked for my gout and back pain right away. did not just treat the inflamation, seems to have taken it away….gone.
@GrahamLondonUK I really enjoyed this as my town in the us is from 1749 and we have a real one, this old. with drawers of herbs, they did a good job on their recreation. my new town is from 1739 and the pharamacy here still has a working counter for modern pharamacist and a 1950′s lunch counter, but the same building and same name. also Paris has one that is still going.
Yes, you’re absolutely right. Perhaps I was thinking that Tom’s entrepreneurial aspirations were being recognised early!
@GrahamLondonUK Well, that is not possible, considering Tom being an apprentice at the pharmacy. You don’t name your shop with your trainee’s name, do you?
Brilliant series! I’m impressed particularly by Tom Quick’s charming and natural presentation skills. The pharmacy should have been named “Barber, Goodman & Quick”!
Get me some of that laudanum!