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The BBC did a series called Victorian Pharmacy[1] where they set out to operate a pharmacy from the era and try out the various "remedies" of the time. If you w
by elliekelly 4y ago
The BBC did a series called Victorian Pharmacy[1] where they set out to operate a pharmacy from the era and try out the various "remedies" of the time. If you watch the series you'll quickly notice a common theme: there are very few victorian remedies the show could actually try today because it would be unethical. And some of the cures they could try seemed a lot like instruments of torture. Like the Malvern Water Cure, for example, which starts at ~38 minutes in this YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXnVTMzSy3s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXnVTMzSy3s
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_Pharmacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_Pharmacy