Download or read book From Physick to Pharmacology written by Louise Hill Curth and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The social history of early medicine and the evolution of British retailing are two areas that have attracted considerable attention from academics in recent years. That said, little work has been done either by medical or business historians on the actual retailing of drugs. This book merges the two themes by examining the growth in the retailing of medicinal drugs from the sixteenth into the twenty-first centuries.