E2P4-4 Victorian Pharmacy – Video

Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1k1wT9Lm2w

In a unique experiment, historian Ruth Goodman, Professor Nick Barber and PhD student Tom Quick are recreating an authentic 19th-century pharmacy. The team take on the challenges of the 1850s and 60s, a time when overcrowded and unsanitary living conditions had reached their peak, leading to unprecedented outbreaks of disease. 'Cure all' medicines that had promised to cure virtually everything, were all the rage and the team make their own out of rhubarb, liquorice, soap and syrup

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E2P4-4 Victorian Pharmacy - Video