February 7, 1907
This is the gloriously appointed Chemist Shop of Mr Jones on the Quay in Waterford City. Having explored Mr Jones’ shelves, I think that the next time I go into a modern chemist/pharmacy for "Tablets of Compressed Drugs", the experience will be a little boring by comparison.
See the comments below for discussion on, and adverts for the weird and wonderful products on sale in this veritable Aladdin’s Cave of early medicaments, some of which are still on our shelves today!
Date: Thursday, 7 February 1907
NLI Ref.: P_WP_1656
what an elegant place!
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Ah when shops still looked like shops, when shopkeepers still looked like shopkeepers and when customers could actually get something now very rare and hard to find; Service and Quality.
I remember 4711. Haven’t seen it for many years.
As seen in the cabinet (bottom right)
Oriental Tooth Paste (3rd cabinet from right, 2nd shelf down)
I’ll bet they had some scary chemicals and even narcotics in there!
Zam-Buk, (extreme bottom right)
Cuts, bruises, sores, burns, sores, piles, pimples, excema, rheumatism, sciatica, bad legs, sore heads and backs, chapped hands. "Rub it in".
1s 1½d per box, or 2s 9d for large family size.
And still available today
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[http://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley] I still use 4711 🙂
But I’m a bit old fashioned.
Really love these old pictures
I remember Zam Buk but I haven’t seen it in donkeys years! Terrific shot and so clear. I can’t wait to have the time to trawl through it and see what is to be seen. Welcome back Carol, hope you had a good time?
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnspooner] Zam-Buk still available! Thank you so much for these lovely ads, John. Love the simplicity of the ad for Zox – take it "and away the pain will go"…
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/swordscookie] Great time, thanks! Though it was a training course, hence Busman’s Holliers… 🙂
Under the bottles of Cod Liver Oil are bottles of "Chemical Food!" when I was a kid my sister who was married with kids of her own gave them Cod Liver oil and "Parrishes Food" daily. If I had the misfortune to be in her home visiting I was dosed as well – yeuch – I can still taste the darned stuff. I wonder are Chemical and Parrishes one and the same? You can obviously see things a lot better than us Carol but the selection of items on display here is brilliant. Lavender water, Bay Rum, Calverts soap??? A cornucopia of old memories!
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/swordscookie] To modern eyes, an absolute Aladdin’s Cave! Think you’re right about the Parish’s and Chemical Food. Apparently it was also known as Parish’s Chemical Food – it was to add iron. Am I the only person in the Northern Hemisphere never to have been given Cod Liver Oil as a child? I’m always telling my mother I was neglected, and finally here’s my proof! 🙂