Branching out

Years ago (I've been retired for sixteen years) I was approached by local horse owners to stock horse wormers as apparently there 2,000 horses in our area and they all have to be regularly wormed. For some reason the public found it incredibly amusing that our practice leaflet listed "horse wormers sold" among our other faciliies.

At that time there was a veterinary section of the Pharm Soc for pharmacists who sold animal medicines but I don't know if it still exists. Come to think of it - does the Pharmaceutical Society still exist?

My first job was at Boots in Kings Lynn which had a big "farms and gardens" department. We kept so much dried blood fertiliser in one warehouse that it was known as the bloody tower. And because we sold Cymag (a sodium cyanide product for killing rabbits - since banned) we had to keep a cyanide poisoning remedy in the dispensary.


Bill Johnson

Hi Bill, thanks for your comment, sounds interesting! It would be great to have a chat some time to find out more about these different, unusual avenues that pharmacies you've worked at have gone down. My email address is melanie.hall@ubm.com (and my number is 0207 921 8071) if you'd like to get in touch.

Veterinary medinices in pharmacy are not new - we have been selling them for over 20 years!