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Footler
By Footler
Footler 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
- Code-breaking in rice
- World’s first drug treaty
- Cholesterol, blondes and armadillos
- Mail order pioneer
- Eyeglass innovator
- Why we must avoid the lauki smoothie
- Origin of “the wave”
- Sequestering carbon
- Malaria: a crazy idea that might work
- Bovine altitude problem
- Fish bones versus lead
- Point mutation caused a freak side-show
- Motoring’s future: a hat
- Last city of the Incas
- Possible medical uses for the noni tree
- Chickens as a source of plastic
- Socialising really is good for us
- Butterbur and prevention of hay fever
- Propaganda backed by brutality
- Stem cells to tackle hearing loss?
- How a fungus may help control malaria
- Rescued piece of Victorian history
- Fighting female genital mutilation
- Holy basil and its medicinal properties
- How scientists got their name
- Biodiversity struggle must go on
- Father and son who challenged Darwin
- My first sip of warm, sweet meth
- Pioneering manuals of childcare
- From Xalapa through Jalap to Jollop
- How instant communication began
- Despised worm or useful ally?
- Swallows and Amazons and asthma
- New hope for metabolic diseases
- Old and new uses for volcanic ash
- Those Montgolfiers and their balloons
- Painstaking search for rare orchid
- Example of art from technology
- The zymologist who won a Nobel Prize
- The Pony Express: a short-lived legend of the American Wild West
- Here’s another worry
- Navel-gazing naturalist
- Brought to book: putting the modulus 10 algorithm to practical use
- Strange rural tradition
- Ambroise Paré and the gentle art of surgery
- Problem of hereditary disease in isolated island populations
- A ghostly figure haunting the mountain mists
- A day for promoting braille
- To be able to see clearly into the future
- The story of the unique Ossabaw Island pig
- Importance of diabetes day
- The fruit of the quince: the golden apple of antiquity
- Shine on harvest moon
- Remembering the creator of possibly the finest guidebooks in the world
- The perfume of the earth — harnessing the natural essence of stone
- Why we all need to take care of our guts
- Collection with a difference
- The never-ending world of lists
- Estimating a child’s future height
- Mithridate — an antidote fit for a king
- Passion and poetry: how we remember who, what, when and where
- A compound to dye for
- The end of the Winchester stock bottle is in sight
- Henry VIII and the art of herbal healing
- Parkinson’s Awareness Week
- Inside the Red Book of Hergest
- No no no to a bottle of rum
- A new leprosy bacterium found
- An update on Robert Burns and pharmacy
- Bunions and braking time
- Happy 250th birthday, Rabbie
- Health-giving benefit of a cold bath
- Flying pigs and a cactus on my arm
- The pharmacist in the movies
- Developments in useful headgear
- A possible shortcut to finding new drugs
- All aboard for a thrilling voyage
- October is the best month to make the wine of the west
- A human obsession with large numbers
- Enter the billy goat plum
- Technology is threatening the future of the friendly airport sniffer dog
- Pick, chew, scoop and apply when required for relief of inflammation
- Centenary of a pioneering heart surgeon
- Forty years on: the loneliness of the long distance yachtsman
- The fascination of the latest scientific gadget
- Short-snouted seahorses breed in the River Thames
