120 Midwifery training for women was provided from the beginning. The building was felt to be very suitable. The bar was used as the apothecary's shop. Inpatient accommodation was available for widows, deserted wives, and those whose homes were unsuitable. 80 were admitted in 1791/92.
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Its roots, however, go back much earlier to the Guild of Pepperers formed in London in 1180. Interior of an apothecary's shop. Illustration from Illustrated History of Furniture, From the Earliest to the Present Time from 1893 by Frederick Litchfield (1850–1930). The Lady Apothecary, by Alfred Jacob Miller (between 1825 and 1870).
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Camilla, daughter to spice merchant Andrea Greghetti, was herself one of six children. She was twice married and mother of six children. Her first husband, Aloviso Stella, was the owner of an apothecary's shop called the Tre Stelle, which was located in the town of Sant'Andrea in Padua. Camilla remarried after his death.
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Born in London, England, Dale was apprenticed to an apothecary at the age of 15. In 1680, he left to open his own apothecary's shop in Braintree, Essex. He soon became licensed to practice medicine, and worked as a general doctor. It was in this position where Dale met and befriended John Ray, and began to assist him in his botanical work.
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The Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary Shop/Museum is a historic apothecary's shop in Alexandria, Virginia, US, that has been preserved as a museum. During its working life, the drug company was owned by generations of a Quaker family. Eventually, a dramatic decline in sales during the Great Depression forced the shop to close its doors. Almost immediately, in 1939, it was reopened as a museum.
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Parkinson died on 21 December 1824, after a stroke that interfered with his speech. He bequeathed his houses in Langthorne to his sons and wife, and his apothecary's shop to his son John. His collection of organic remains was given to his wife, and much of it was sold in 1827; a catalogue of the sale has never been found. He was buried at St. Leonard's Church, Shoreditch.
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As a necessary prerequisite to practising surgery he opened an apothecary's shop then became a burgess of the city on 19 August 1702. He was admitted to the Incorporation of Surgeons on 11 March 1703, having passed the necessary examinations. Minutes of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. 11 March 1703Monro was elected as Boxmaster (Treasurer) from 1708 to 1710 and was elected Deacon (President) in 1712.
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J.F. Macfarlan Ltd was founded in 1780 as an apothecary supplier. In 1815 John Fletcher Macfarlan, licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons, became the owner of the family business, and acquired an apothecary's shop in Edinburgh. He immediately began to manufacture laudanum, a medicine based on opium. In 1830 Macfarlan began a partnership with his former apprentice David Rennie Brown, and so incorporated the business as J.F. Macfarlan and Co Ltd.
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Munden was the son of a poulterer in Brook's Market, Leather Lane, Holborn. He was by the age of twelve in an apothecary's shop; subsequently he was apprenticed to Mr. Druce, a law stationer in Chancery Lane. In Liverpool he was engaged for a while in the office of the town clerk, also appearing on the stage as an extra. After some experience of repertory companies, Munden was engaged to play old men at Leatherhead.
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Garratt was surgeon to the United States Dragoons at Fort Des Moines, Iowa, and United States Vice Consul at Port-Au-Prince for two years. After the government position as Vice Consul he practiced medicine and kept an apothecary's shop in Abington, Massachusetts. He was admitted to the Massachusetts Medical Society in 1849. Garratt came to Hanover, Massachusetts, in 1851 and resided in the house left vacant by Dr. Fobes which was originally built by the Rev.
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A 19th century leech jar. The leeches were kept in special containers of moist turf and moss and a flow of fresh water from the Bedale Beck was diverted through the building.The Northern Echo A fireplace provided heat to ensure the containers and the leeches within did not freeze in winter. Specialized and often very ornate 'Leech Jars' with a secure lid and small pierced air holes were used for the storage of leeches in the apothecary's shop.
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Jack and Eliza spend the winter near a cave warmed by a hot water spring. In the springtime, they travel to the fair dressed as a noblewoman and her bodyguard where they meet Doctor Leibniz. They quickly sell their goods with the help of Leibniz, and agree to accompany him to his silver mine in the Harz Mountains. Once they arrive at the mine, Jack wanders into the local town where he has a brief encounter with Enoch Root in an apothecary's shop.
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An eighteenth-century apothecary's shop recreated for the Deutsches Museum in Nürnberg During the trial, Rose was an influential and high ranking liveryman of the Society of Apothecaries, associating with London's wealthiest citizens. His brothers included Thomas Rose and Francis Rose who patented land in Jamaica, and John Rose, a London merchant, who traded with Jamaica and transported labourers there on his ships. Another brother, Fulke Rose, was an early colonist of Jamaica whose widow eventually married Sir Hans Sloane.Fulke Rose Profile & Legacies Summary.
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Whilst in Stockholm, Stephen Maturin visits an apothecary's shop to buy laudanum. He inquires about the coca or cuca leaf from Peru, which he learned about in a previous mission, detailed in The Far Side of the World and the apothecary replies, "It is said to dissolve the gross humours and do away with appetite." Maturin buys a pound and the coca leaf eventually comes to replace his opium habit in later novels. He carries the leaves in a pouch and lime in a small silver box.
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The Tabula Affinitatum. The Tabula Affinitatum is a table of chemical affinities between substances. Commissioned around 1766 by the pharmacist Hubert Franz Hoefer for the apothecary's shop of the Grand Duke of Florence, this large table of chemical substances was designed to guide the preparer of pharmaceutical remedies in identifying the compounds most likely to combine with one another. The table is modeled on Étienne-François Geoffroy's Table des différents Rapports observés entre différentes substances (Paris, 1718), from which it differs by adding a seventeenth column.
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It was the beginning of regulation of the medical profession in the UK. The Act required instruction in anatomy, botany, chemistry, materia medica and "physic", in addition to six months' practical hospital experience. Despite the Act, training of medical people in Britain remained disparate. Thomas Bonner, in part quoting M. Jeanne Peterson, notes that "The training of a practitioner in Britain in 1830 could vary all the way from classical university study at Oxford and Cambridge to a series of courses in a provincial hospital to 'broom-and-apron apprenticeship in an apothecary's shop'".
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In the 'lunette of the bakery', recently kneaded bread is being pushed into an oven; a butcher turns meat on a spit while a cat tries to steal it from him. In the 'lunette of the tailor's shop', pieces of cloth are measured and cut, while on the shelves of the rear of the apothecary's shop, numerous jars of herbs and other medicines are shown. The 'lunette of the market' shows a fruit and vegetable market busy with numerous customers and vendors dressed in costumes of the period. Lastly, in the 'lunette of the small goods seller's shop', some forms of the typical Fontina cheese are shown; these are considered to the oldest representations of this cheese.
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Its wainscoted rooms, > and its rotten floors and staircase, and the old grey rats swarming down in > the cellars, and the sound of their squeaking and scuffling coming up the > stairs at all times, and the dirt and decay of the place, rise up visibly > before me, as if I were there again. The counting-house was on the first > floor, looking over the coal-barges and the river. There was a recess in it, > in which I was to sit and work. My work was to cover the pots of paste- > blacking; first with a piece of oil-paper, and then with a piece of blue > paper; to tie them round with a string; and then to clip the paper close and > neat, all round, until it looked as smart as a pot of ointment from an > apothecary's shop.
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