E1P1-4 Victorian Pharmacy

In a unique experiment, historian Ruth Goodman, Professor Nick Barber and PhD student Tom Quick recreate an authentic 19th-century pharmacy. The team discovers 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, held sway. After sampling some of the old ways, the team ventures into new discoveries, such as the Malvern water cure, the bronchial kettle for curing coughs, and the invention of Indian tonic water.

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[swiv2d]

more of these shows please, and less of Big brother and bargain hunt

[radface692]

Get me some of that laudanum!

[miriamjwoods]

@Angelusismine Good point! I hadn't considered that.

[Angelusismine]

@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~

[miriamjwoods]

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.

[JohnnyDeppFan1x]

this reminds me of the black country museum =) xxx

[GrahamLondonUK]

@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.

[thepixieful]

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.

[thepixieful]

@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.

[GrahamLondonUK]

Yes, you're absolutely right. Perhaps I was thinking that Tom's entrepreneurial aspirations were being recognised early!

[tisakongouseki]

@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?