Remember the time ...

. . . when chemist shops or pharmacies displayed large glass bottles (jars, or carboys) filled with brightly coloured liquids in their windows, and inside the shop, rows of smaller bottles and jars labelled in Latin?

I saw a reconstruction of such a shop yesterday at The Museum of East Anglian Life in Stowmarket, among the many trades and professions remembered not only in this corner of England but all over the world since Victorian times, some of which survive to this day.  Also remembered are 'patent medicines',  some of them beneficial or at least harmless and others ('Quack's remedies' ) potentially lethal, and an example of one of the 'good ones' is also on display here.

Eno Fruit Salts, invented in the 1850s by James Crossley Eno of Newcastle, long accepted as providing fast relief from temporary gastrointestinal disorders, had a world wide sale until its present owners, GlaxoSmithKline, withdrew it from the UK market in 2010, although its sale continued until existing stocks were exhausted. But it is still available in new packaging from Amazon, Ebay, and other non-UK sources, so this relic of a past age, although now a museum piece, is still very much alive and well, helping to keep its regular users regular and in fine fettle.