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Enterprise and Society 2008 9(2):377-379; doi:10.1093/es/khn034
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Louise Hill Curth, ed. From Physick to Pharmacology: Five Hundred Years of British Drug Retailing
Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2006. xiii + 174 pp. ISBN 0-7546-3597-X, $99.95 (cloth).
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From Physick to Pharmacology, Five Hundred years of British Drug Retailing is a welcome supplement to a growing body of work on the origins and development of British drug manufacture. However, Louise Hill Curth's main concern is not manufacturing, or scientific development, but rather how a wide variety of drugs were bought, sold, concocted, advertised and otherwise used in Britain over the last five centuries.
The book is divided into seven chapters, corresponding to five key phases in British drug
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