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 719-721 Oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree
Pharmacist Sarah Marshall looks at
the medicinal uses of Christmas trees
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722 Employment and situations vacant: new opportunities for colonic bacteria Emma
McConnell, a PhD student at The School of Pharmacy, University of London,
describes work on delivery systems that use colonic bacteria
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 723-724 Could we have dispensed with water? Apart from under unusual circumstances, such as those caused by the floods in Gloucestershire in August 2007 (see p731), pharmacists today have little problem with water: they just turn the tap and there it is — water suitable for drinking and most dispensing purposes. Peter Homan, honorary secretary of the British Society for the History of Pharmacy, takes a look at a time when things were not so simple
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725-727 Frogs and snails and invertebrate tales Before
recombinant DNA technology, animals were the only viable source of many hormones.
Insulin and growth hormone were obtained from pigs and cows and conjugated oestrogens
were collected from the urine of pregnant mares (hence the name Premarin). More
recently, however, attention has turned to what venomous creatures might offer,
with several new drugs being developed. Christopher Shaw takes a look
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727 Recollections of 70 years in pharmacy This
year, A. G. Hopkins celebrated 70 years on the Register of Pharmaceutical Chemists.
He describes how pharmacy has changed
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 728-730 Jacob Bell and drawing: Victorian pharmacist and patron of the arts Earlier this year, the museum of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society launched an online exhibition, “Jacob Bell and the artists”, which explores the life of the Society’s founder and his role as a patron of the arts. Briony Hudson, keeper of the museum collections, gives an overview
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730 An expedition into penguin territory Steven Kayne, editor of the Veterinary Pharmacist newsletter, shares his experience of a trip to the Antarctic Peninsula
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731 Pharmacy — come rain, hail or shine Some UK pharmacists had more to contend with this year than meeting medicines use review targets or getting new pharmacy services commissioned. Matthew Wright, news and features writer at The Journal, reports
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 732 Comfrey: ancient and modern uses Christiane
Staiger looks at the past and present of comfrey, a British wild plant, in pharmacy
and medicine
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733-735 Out of the dispensary and into the jungle This
year, 105 war veterans from the UK, including pharmacist Maurice Cutler, travelled
to Malaysia to take part in a parade to celebrate its 50th anniversary of independence.
In this article, he tells the story of his two years in national service, which
took him from Leeds to the jungle
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 735-737 Pharaohs and the first prescriptions Throughout
history, literary records credited the Greeks as being the originators of pharmacy.
Equally meticulous in their recordings were the ancient Egyptians, but not until
Champollion, after Young, deciphered the Rosetta Stone in 1822 were scholars
able to understand what they wrote. In this article, Jackie Campbell describes
the pharmaceutical skills of the ancient Egyptians
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738 Pharmacy at the scouts’ jamboree Pharmacist
and scout leader Martin King describes volunteering at the largest ever scouting
event, which took place in the summer
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 738-740 Why the “scientist on the high street” could be talented in the kitchen Good
pharmacists should be good cooks, says community pharmacist Bob Dunkley. In this
article, he looks at the science of cooking
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740-742 Getting clinical in the Cayman Islands In 2000, Christina Short and her husband crated up their possessions, rented out their home and moved to Grand Cayman, where she took up the post of clinical pharmacist for the government health service, joining a team of 11 pharmacists, five technicians and two assistants. In this article, she describes working in the “Jewel of the Caribbean”
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