From physick to pharmacology
Subtitle: five hundred years of British drug retailing
By: edited by Louise Hill Curth.
Contributors: Curth, Louise.
Series: The history of retailing and consumption; History of retailing and consumption
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hampshire, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
Subjects: Pharmaceutical industry -- Great Britain -- History.; Retail trade -- Great Britain -- History.; Pharmacy -- Great Britain -- History.; Drug Industry -- history -- Great Britain.; Pharmacy -- history -- Great Britain.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: London apothecaries and other medical retailers / Patrick Wallis; title: Medical advertising in the popular press / Louise Hill Curth; title: Accessing drugs in the eighteenth century regions / Steve King; title: "The doctor's shop" / Hilary Marland; title: From "bespoke" to "off-the-peg" / Stuart Anderson; title: "A cascade of medicine" / Judy Slinn.