From Physick to Pharmacology: Five Hundred Years of British Drug Retailing

by Curth,Louise Hill

• ISBN13: 9780754635970
• ISBN10: 075463597X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-10-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The social history of early medicine and the evolution of British retailing are two areas that have attracted considerable attention from academics in recent years. That said, little work has been done either by medical or business historians on the actual retailing of drugs. This book merges the two themes by examining the growth in the retailing of medicinal drugs from the sixteenth into the twenty-first centuries.

Table of Contents

General Editor 's Preface	vii
List of Figures	ix
List of Contributors	xi
Acknowledgements	xiii
1 Introduction: Perspectives on the Evolution of the Retailing of Pharmaceuticals	1	(12)
Louise Hill Curth
2 Apothecaries and the Consumption and Retailing of Medicines in Early Modern London	13	(16)
Patrick Wallis
3 Medical Advertising in the Popular Press: Almanacs and the Growth of Proprietary Medicines	29	(20)
Louise Hill Curth
4 Accessing Drugs in the Eighteenth-Century Regions	49	(30)
Steven King
5 'The Doctor's Shop': The Rise of the Chemist and Druggist in Nineteenth-Century Manufacturing Districts	79	(26)
Hilary Marland
6 From 'Bespoke' to 'Off-the-Peg': Community Pharmacists and the Retailing of Medicines in Great Britain 1900-1970	105	(38)
Stuart Anderson
7 'A Cascade of Medicine': The Marketing and Consumption of Prescription Drugs in the UK 1948-2000	143	(28)
Judy Slinn
Index	171