tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3137995022574691057.post5546851652542467668..comments2023-08-26T14:31:44.845+01:00Comments on Charles Lambert: What it says on the packetCharles Lamberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18074227813367594283noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3137995022574691057.post-39869681037682378712007-10-25T00:19:00.000+01:002007-10-25T00:19:00.000+01:00Well, here we call them "drugstores"which makes th...Well, here we call them "drugstores"<BR/>which makes them a much more commercial enterprise. Chemist implies some sort of dispassionate scientist. Not sure which fits better.Chanceluckyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16829789745697541046noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3137995022574691057.post-44279776631808553392007-10-24T15:30:00.000+01:002007-10-24T15:30:00.000+01:00Yes, and both countries seem to have similar level...Yes, and both countries seem to have similar levels of hypochondria too. What's interesting is that the mystique creates an immensely informed public - exactly the opposite of what happens in religious matters, where people appear perfectly content to let all knowledge reside in the figure of the priest (perhaps a reflection on its perceived uselessness). I remember a little Italian girl, five or six years old, once explaining that she hadn't come to a lesson because she had spleen ache(<I>mal di milza</I>). I didn't know what the <I>milza</I> was and the fact that she could point it out on her own body didn't help at all. <BR/><BR/>Thank you.Charles Lamberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18074227813367594283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3137995022574691057.post-83505886423117270572007-10-24T15:22:00.000+01:002007-10-24T15:22:00.000+01:00They sound like French pharmacies. The French have...They sound like French pharmacies. The French have strict regulations to protect pharmaceutical products from the general public. (Yes, I think that's the word order I mean.) Packaging is part of the theatre. This air of mystique, incidentally, applies equally to the homeopathic remedies so often on sale (though 'sale' seems much too prosaic a word to describe the transaction) in these august premises.<BR/><BR/>Get well soon.Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18308068899467100319noreply@blogger.com