In a unique experiment, historian Ruth Goodman, Professor Nick Barber and PhD student Tom Quick are recreating an authentic 19th-century pharmacy.

The team discover the world of the pharmacy at the beginning of Queen Victoria's reign in 1837 - a world where traditional remedies such as leeches, oil of earthworm and potions laced with cannabis and opium were popular and regularly used.

Ruth gathers herbs and plants to make a traditional cough medicine for a customer to test. Meanwhile, other volunteers try some safe cures from Victorian times - will any of them work or was it all just quackery? Show less