Pharmacy - Collins Pharmacy 1915
by Mike Savad
Title
Pharmacy - Collins Pharmacy 1915
Artist
Mike Savad
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Photograph - Colorized Photo
Description
Colorized photo from 1915
Original title: Collins pharmacy
Location: New York, Long Island
Originally, pharmacies were small cramped rooms, filled with bottles of chemicals and a heaping portion of leaches. They would use these to bleed all the toxins from you. As time progressed, they learned to mix herbs and other things, and create concoctions that probably made it worse, but it was better than nothing.
Later on they figured out that Ice Cream is the best medicine, and combine that with soda, you feel totally better. As it turns out people probably just had low blood sugar, and this fixed it right up.
The soda fountain was actually invented in pharmacies, it was used to dispense medicines in tastier ways. Disguising the horrid flavor with fruit juices and other ingredients. Many of the soda's they made in the past, we are still drinking them today.
Still as time progressed, pharmacies became the place of medicine, and ice cream and soda became a place of its own. That was until you could buy those two things in the store, and now those are gone now as well.
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Joy McKenzie
From reading your detailed description, Mike, I just realized sonething. Growing up in Boston, we always called soda or pop "Tonic", and people from other states always laughed at us :) Now I know why it was called tonic, which is usually a word used for a medical preparation. So thanks for that enlightenment! Love the image, so many interesting things to look at.