The
Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 273 No 7330 p897-936
18/25 December 2004
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| 897-899 A cross-sectional study of UK academics suggests Santa Claus might be a professor
Aim —
To investigate trends of facial hair among academic staff in UK universities 900-902 Medicinal properties of body parts
Shakespeare wrote of treatment with witch’s mummy, liver of blaspheming Jew, Tartar’s lips and finger of birth-strangled babe, but it is doubtful that he took any of them seriously. In this article, Peter Cooper, FRPharmS, delves into the gory depths of the use of human body parts in medicine 903-904 Interview
with a trematode parasite Last week, Georgina Boodhoo
invited a special guest to her popular radio programme, broadcast from
Africa. Here is an excerpt from the show 905-906 Snowdrops: the heralds of spring and a modern drug for Alzheimer’s disease
In this article, Michael Heinrich looks at how galantamine came to be used to treat Alzheimer’s disease 907-908 Blowing up grandma, or how one pharmacist entered the profession
Ray Sturgess recounts what made him choose to become
a pharmacist 909 Who
was the pharmacist of Auschwitz? In this article, Edzard
Ernst recounts the chilling details he found out about Victor Capesius,
a pharmacist convicted of Nazi war crimes 910 And
winter his delights Alan Wiseman, a locum pharmacist,
recalls winters as a medical representative in Surrey 911-913 Why the French Riviera became the place to be for English pharmacists In
this article, Stuart Anderson describes the background to the annual
migration of affluent Victorians to the French Riviera and the life and
work of the English pharmacists who went with them 914-915 Where have all the fixtures gone?
As pharmacies across the country may be preparing themselves
for the new contract with shiny new refits, spare a thought for the fixtures
and fittings of yesterday, says Lin-Nam Wang 916 Enter
The Journal’s caption competition 916 What
UK pharmacists can do for pharmacists in other countries John
Bell, immediate past president of the Commonwealth Pharmaceutical Association,
reminds us about Pharmaid and other worthy projects |
917 Le
Roy Le Veult This cartoon, entitled “Le Roy Le Veult”, is taken from The
Pharmaceutical Journal of 1 July 1933 917 Christmas crossword puzzle 918 Can
you spot the differences? 919-921 Myrrh:
magi, medicine and mortality Following an article
last Christmas, on frankincense (PDF 180K),
this year Sarah Marshall takes a look at myrrh 922 Ginger
wine and the Band of Hope Pennant Roberts recalls
an era when consumers used to ask pharmacists to make their own extemporaneous
preparations 923-924 The
Tasmanian poppy industry Did you know that about
50 per cent of the world’s morphine is from Tasmania? In this
article, Peter Mackenzie gives a brief history of the Tasmanian poppy
industry and a tribute to his late friend Stephen King 925-927 The
use of unicorn horn in medicine In this article,
William Jackson writes about the myth of the unicorn and the use
of its horn in medicine 928-929 Learning
about myself in Istanbul Last spring, Terry Maguire,
a community pharmacist in Belfast, visited Istanbul. His short trip
showed him the history, the beauty and the culture of this ancient
city. But it also gave him a slightly disturbing personal insight 930-931 Gold,
golf and pharmacy in the Gulf Having recently revisited
the country of his birth, Sultan Dajani tells of developments in
the United Arab Emirates 931-932 How
NHS prescribing was restricted In this article, Peter
Homan, explains how the limited list was introduced by the Government
in 1984 933-936 I’m
a pharmacist: get me out of here! Laurence Middleton
Jones, writer, producer and occasional locum pharmacist, recounts
his week on a Welsh reality television show 936 Everything
I know about pogonophobia We asked The Journal’s
deputy editor, Andrew Haynes, to write something about the fear of
beards. Here is the result |