Stories
- Article
Diagnosed bipolar, prescribed lithium
In the first part of a series looking into lithium, Laura Grace Simpkins recounts the beginning of her troubled relationship with this mysterious drug.
- Article
Why I don’t like prescribing sleeping pills
Sleeping pills often seem a simple option for aiding sleep or when dealing with anxiety, but there are many risks, and our anonymous GP is not afraid to say no to patients.
- Article
A quick guide to drugs, the brain and brain chemistry
Discover some of the major chemicals that govern activity in our brains, how they work, and why certain drugs have the effects they do.
- Long read
Primodos, paternalism and the fight to be heard
Journalist Florence Wildblood examines the case of Primodos – a conveniently quick but risky hormone pregnancy test that was prescribed in the 1960s and ’70s – and profiles two women at the story’s shocking heart.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Hughes, J. S. and Crawford Litte, J. - An Appraisal of the Continuing Practice of Prescribing Tranquillizing Drugs for Long-stay Psychiatric Patients
Date: 1967Reference: DGH1/6/18/102Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital- Ephemera
- Online
Get to the heart of heartburn - quickly (even in hiatus hernia) by prescribing Asilone suspension or tablets.
Date: [between 1965 and 1971?]- Archives and manuscripts
Neurosciences and Mental health: Correspondence. Use of drugs in epilepsy
Date: 1976-1992Reference: SA/ILE/J/1/3/2Part of: Archive of the International League Against Epilepsy- Ephemera
- Online
For eczemas in general practice it's a good general practice to prescribe Propaderm - first : Woolwich.
Date: 1975- Ephemera
- Online
Give your hypertensive patient the "royal" treatment at the working man's price : prescribe Rexigen (propranolol hydrochloride) - the kind of β-blockers - at a price your patients can more easily afford!.
Date: [1979?]