{"id":689424,"date":"2026-05-23T22:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T22:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/689424\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T22:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T22:36:10","slug":"water-street-museum-showcases-century-old-pharmacy-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/689424\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Street Museum Showcases Century Old Pharmacy Practices"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Apothecary Hall (VOCM News)<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a hidden gem in plain site.<\/p>\n

The Pharmacy Museum<\/a> is open for another season on Water Street in St. John\u2019s, located in Apothecary Hall<\/a>, the former O\u2019Mara\u2019s Pharmacy property.<\/p>\n

Pharmacist Keith Bailey says the museum features methods and compounds\u00a0used by pharmacists years ago.<\/p>\n

He says despite\u00a0major advancements in science and technology, many of the practices used back then are still in\u00a0use today.<\/p>\n

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Keith Bailey (VOCM News)<\/p>\n

\u201cWe do vaccines now in a bigger way, and many other services, but we still do compounding, and we still make things from scratch, we still make things from recipes like pharmacists did 100 years ago\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe also celebrate what was on Water Street for many years. There were dozens of pharmacies on Water Street.\u00a0 It was the beacon for pharmacy\u2026all have closed now, and I guess this is the last bastion of pharmacy on Water Street.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Apothecary Hall (VOCM News) It\u2019s a hidden gem in plain site. The Pharmacy Museum is open for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":["post-689424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}