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Bystander
By Bystander
Bystander is the pen name of a regular contributor to The Pharmaceutical Journal who writes on non-pharmacy matters that pharmacists might find interesting
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Posts
- When is Twelfth Night?
- “Decus et tutamen”
- Edward Hopper’s enigmatic pharmacy
- Danger of sky lanterns
- Hippocrates knew best
- Mortar and pestle in history and heraldry
- Helping to conquer CVI
- Mrs Beeton’s remedies
- Antlers, arrows and ammonium salts
- Silly season exclusive
- Chatting with dolphins
- Apt motif for accuracy in dispensing
- Slimy-flowered bone-eating worm
- Baxter’s law of conservation of filth
- Alembics and their origin in alchemy
- 400 years of the King James Bible
- To be taken in a recumbent posture
- Healthcare’s snake-on-a-stick device
- Sad image of pharmacy’s US role
- Fighting malaria with seaweed
- Aloe, “commonest domestic medicine”
- More about transatlantic cats
- Why is flu a winter problem?
- Pharmacy and the olive branch of peace
- Game bird for a pharmacist
- Goddess of women’s health
- Avicenna, an under-appreciated genius
- Drugs in fiction
- Centenary of Kiddo the airship cat
- Mole Day (23 October)
- Galen, gladiators and galenicals
- Paying attention to our health
- Fluoxetine and the environment
- Aubrey and the scientific revolution
- I’ll never forget whatshisname
- Studying gunfighters’ brains
- The manic depression of George III
- Was J. M. Barrie really Peter Pan?
- A pharmacist and a local hero
- Aromatic myrtle and its medicinal uses
- Cyclopean sheep give cancer hope
- The X to Z of proprietary names
- A pharmacist famous for his potatoes
- Recalling a stinker of a movie
- The wrong St Valentine’s day
- Snowdrop hope for dementia sufferers
- So Guinness really is good for you
- Marking a biodisaster in 2010
- The mince pie in history, myth and law
- Lambeth’s 17th century plant hunters
- Who wrote that Petronius quote?
- The actress and the torpedo
- Our plethora of patron saints
- A day for minding our languages
- A wound healer and a cheese preserver
- Diagnosis to the sound of music
- The problem with cloppy doggerel
- The pharmacist who influenced Darwin
- 4 July not true Independence Day
- Died in the cause of research
- An early expert in the art of marketing
- Tribute to “Onlooker”
- When the balloon goes up, consider the turtle
- Was Pitt the Younger poisoned by his port?
