Victorian Pharmacy
Historian Ruth Goodman, professor Nick Barber and PhD student Tom Quick recreate an authentic 19th-century pharmacy, which brought medical science, family remedies and traditional folklore to every high street.
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Historian Ruth Goodman, professor Nick Barber and PhD student Tom Quick recreate an authentic 19th-century pharmacy, which brought medical science, family remedies and traditional folklore to every high street.
Ruth, Nick and Tom recreate an authentic 19th-century pharmacy, a time when overcrowding, poor sanitation and poverty...
The team takes on the challenges of the 1850s and 1860s, when overcrowded and unsanitary living conditions had reached...
The pharmacy enters a period of new invention and new laws. Narcotics were freely available across the counter, and...
Tom branches out into photography and dentistry using the latest technology, such as the foot-pedal dental drill. The...