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Re: Help me cure this creative block.
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Abraham Flexer <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:34:36 -0700
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Mike-
         Having grown up in the 1940s & '50s in a pharmacy, I'm 
struck by how different today's pharmacies are, and by how little the 
differences are recognized.  So my suggestion would be to try to 
contrast pharmacies of, say,  2000. 1950, 1900, 1850, 1750, 1600, 
500...  These differences might be conveyed with
         - pharmacopeas
         - equipment (balances, scales, mortars/pestles, pill & 
tablet making tablets)  Users might do hands-on activities
         -  practices of dispensing: (making tinctures, counting out 
pills/slapping labels on bottles of pills)  More hands-on
Also a timeline suggesting innovations: herbal medicine; early 
"scientific" phase; sulfa drugs, antibiotics; antibiotic resistance...

         All pretty obvious, but perhaps useful???

P.S.  Some years, ago, there was a pharmacy museum in New 
Orleans.  It might have survived the floods.

At 04:30 PM 2/11/2010 -0600, you wrote:
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>Hey Everybody,
>
>If you went into a museum about the history and practice of pharmacy what
>would you expect to see and what would you want to see?  What would you want
>to do.  Samples will not be provided, sorry.
>
>  Thanks,
>
>Mike
>
>
>Mike Levad
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Abe Flexer
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Louisville, CO  80027
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Evolve and educate. 

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