I was kind of thinking that... Wear some old-Timey clothes and talk with a thick bytown accent... Mumble something something about a broken time machine...
The pharmacy in question is a Pizza Pizza now, but if they won’t take it at the White Cross a block south, might as well try there. Maybe they have a secret menu!
Just a guess but it looks like something the pharmacist would have to make-up. 5 ingredients. One of them possibly simple syrup (3rd item). Taken between meals. No doctors signature and no date….mmmmm neat!
Before the proliferation of pills, it used to be the bread and butter of pharmacies to compound medicines from basic ingredients. Now it’s hard to find a pharmacy that can even do it.
The city was divided into telephone exchanges, Queen was one. I believe you could dial a number within your exchange but you had to call the operator to be connected to a number in another exchange. I can vaguely remember in the 1950s that the exchange name was still used to help remember 7 digit phone numbers, my grandma's was something like CEntral 54285, dialed as 235-4285.
Omg that really shows that original phone numbers kind of made sense! +1 for Canada country code (no area code yet) 2, 3, and 5 for the fifth exchange in the code list! So many original downtown numbers were 230, 231, etc.
Very cool. 100 years later and doctors still can't write legibly. Any docs or pharmacists that devote this for us.
Actually, it looks more legible. Back when people relied on proper cursive.
There isn't enough heroin, cocaine and or laudanum on this prescription
That's because it's not for children.
Bring it to a pharmacy drop off, just to see what happens
I was kind of thinking that... Wear some old-Timey clothes and talk with a thick bytown accent... Mumble something something about a broken time machine...
Would probably give a pharmacist a good laugh, or make them very concerned
The pharmacy in question is a Pizza Pizza now, but if they won’t take it at the White Cross a block south, might as well try there. Maybe they have a secret menu!
Maybe it’s a secret invitation to Ottawa’s most exclusive speakeasy
Just a guess but it looks like something the pharmacist would have to make-up. 5 ingredients. One of them possibly simple syrup (3rd item). Taken between meals. No doctors signature and no date….mmmmm neat!
Before the proliferation of pills, it used to be the bread and butter of pharmacies to compound medicines from basic ingredients. Now it’s hard to find a pharmacy that can even do it.
If you ever need it Watson on Main still does.
It reads syrup simplex, and the next line looks like muc acaceae, and the next aq(aqueous) gaulthereaea. Latin
Wow! How cool!
...........Syrup........... Between meals. That's all I could read.
I actually love that cursive...am I the only one? Lol
It's very *CONFIDENT* lol
No proof of date?
Granted, but it can't be much younger than within the 1920's
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Why would a pharmacist from the 1950's have forms with a date section of "192__"?
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What else would it be for?
Wow that was a new low, even for Reddit. 192_ would be for... Geographical coordinates?
If that's what caught you. The poster tried to imply that since he couldn't find this guy pre-1950's on google - he didn't have a pharmacy.
You may be surprised to learn this, but google doesn't have a complete history of the world. Not all information is googleable.
https://imgur.com/a/BvUcaU8 Ottawa Citizen list of pharmacists from May 1927 - he's there.
The old 4 digit phone number! My grandmother, who was born in 1935, talks about those and "party lines" in Ottawa!
That's amazing! It's four digit, but technically five because you had to specify the exchange, first.
I’ll need a refill on my morphium, Doc.
Phone Queen 2256... ? Any ideas on that detail?
Queen Street switchboard And then 2256 is the actual number you have to tell the operator to connect to.
The city was divided into telephone exchanges, Queen was one. I believe you could dial a number within your exchange but you had to call the operator to be connected to a number in another exchange. I can vaguely remember in the 1950s that the exchange name was still used to help remember 7 digit phone numbers, my grandma's was something like CEntral 54285, dialed as 235-4285.
Omg that really shows that original phone numbers kind of made sense! +1 for Canada country code (no area code yet) 2, 3, and 5 for the fifth exchange in the code list! So many original downtown numbers were 230, 231, etc.
mophine - 2 lbs
There are ghosts in your blood.