John Hill, Pharmaceutical Chemist, West Street.

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John Hill, Pharmaceutical Chemist, West Street.

First Class Toilet Requisites

Advertisement from Illustrated Guide to Sheffield first published 1862

Various lotions, potions and perfumes attributed to Hill. 

I wonder what they smelled like and did they do all that was claimed they would?

[Edmund]

I think their Opium worked, there must have been an uncounted number of deaths both accidental and deliberate.  Home made cough mixture was made using opium, sold in a paper twist, called a scruple, for a penny, which contained 20 grains and was equivalent to 380 drops of laudenum. Other ingredients were juniper berries and Spanish juice (liquorice). The shop assistant would write on the paper "opium, poison", but many customers couldn't read.

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Whites Directory 1849

Hill, James, pharmaceutical and dispensing chemist, 118 West Street. 

 

Whites Directory 1852

Hill, John, pharmaceutical and dispensing chemist, 123 West Street. 

Whites Directory 1856

Hill, John, pharmaceutical and dispensing chemist, 123 West Street. 

 

Whites Directory 1862

Hill, John, chemist and druggist, 124 West Street. 

 

Whites Directory 1879

Not listed.