Pharmacy
Kai Hanga Rongoa – The Medicine Maker, Whanganui
Recently I was given 3 very important and rare chemist bottle labels that are written in Te Reo Maori. These are unused on a sheet…
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The stories of medicines, shops and their keepers.
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Pharmacy Labels used on bottles and containers
When a pharmacist packaged up a dispensed item, there was a legal requirement to label the item’s container with specific instructions for use, as…
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Introduction to Pharmacies in Remuera
Remuera has become one of Auckland’s’ premium suburban shopping precincts. Several quality pharmacies remain, and about double that number have shut down or been amalgamated.…
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Country Pharmacies (1910 – 1926)
Memoirs of Launce A. Sutcliffe Written on 7th October 1997 My father did his apprenticeship with Spencer Vincent in Christchurch from April…
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Thomas Rice Gillman: Onehunga Medical Hall
That Mr. Gillman ‘s willingness to help those afflicted with pain or illness was not disapproved of by the medical fraternity was evidenced by…
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Augusta Gillman: A narrow escape from being “buried alive” at sea
Thomas Gillman’ s daughter Augusta Kezia Gillman, was registered as a Pharmaceutical Chemist (No. 536) on the 13th day of March 1899, her qualification being…
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Dispensing in New Zealand (1880 onwards)
“Specie Jars + Speedy Oil” (Part Two of a talk given to the Medical History Society in 2006) I continue tonight from the position of…
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Uncontrolled Dispensing in New Zealand (pre 1880)
(Transcript of talk given to Medical History Society on 7th July 2005 by Terry Sutcliffe) This article is the first of 2 parts, being through…