After a brief historical introduction and a description of a Victorian chemist and druggist’s shop, this book describes and illustrates many of the items used and sold there. Most of the dispensing equipment and containers for the drugs are now obsolete and appear time to time in antique shops and at collector’s fairs. Articles sold over the counter included medicines, perfumes and toiletries and a wide variety of objects used in the sickroom and nursery. The book also includes a chapter on medical and surgical instruments and will help in the identification of the medical bygones which were in everyday use in the nineteenth century.

Paperback

Condition – A little well read; Otherwise OK