Jonathan Mesiano-Crookston on Nostr: Why did we ever stop saying pharmacists drug their patients? "In London the epidemic ...
Why did we ever stop saying pharmacists drug their patients?
"In London the epidemic trebled the death rate in one week. Horace Walpole, describing its effects in a letter dated 25 March 1743, stated ‘not a family in London has scaped under five or six ill; many people have been forced to hire new labourers. Guernier, the apothecary, took two new apprentices, and yet could not drug all his patients.’11 A"
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