Could we have dispensed with water?
Apart from under unusual circumstances, such as those caused by natural flooding as a result of unseasonable rain 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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