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Merlin
By Merlin
Merlin 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
- Cross my palm with silver once again
- Through a glass darkly with Claud Lorrain
- The rapture of the deep
- Quartz crystals are forever
- Why clockwise, not widdershins?
- No to vaccines, yes to woolly long-johns
- Must a balloon made of lead always go down like a lead balloon?
- Boogie for your bones
- Cross my palm with silver
- Ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars
- A humble railway vehicle that had a valiant role
- Always read the label
- Across the English Channel: celebrating a double anniversary
- Cultivating crops without the use of soil
- Yarrow and the Trojan war
- A Victorian custom revived
- Of raspberries and foghorns
- Strawberry jelly — a diagnostic hazard
- Could the sport of flounder tramping become a new Olympic event?
- Batteries not required
- How modern renal dialysis started with old car parts
- Why curling stones are made on Ailsa Craig
- Chasing the sun across the floor to tell the time
- Day for Down’s syndrome
- Accurate or precise?
- Finding an epitaph for an apothecary
- A celebration of Charles Darwin’s bicentenary
- Leisure activity
- Distribution problem
- Not so still waters: becks, dumbles and leats
- An everyday story of pharmaceutical folk?
- Properties of a plant pest
- Let there be light (through prisms)
- Amateur scientists need a society
- A view from the other side of the counter
- Origins of the Straight Track Club
- Another special awareness day
- An unwelcome new plant in my garden
- An early astronomical computer
- Britain as a source of new species
- An expert in the classification of plants
