https://www.scmp.com/rss/512445/feed Patrick Chiu (Manchu name Irgen Gioro) is an author and pharmaceutical historian who previously had a business career in Canada, mainland China and Singapore. He was born in Guangzhou and can trace his origins back to the Bordered Yellow Tribe who lived near Kirin, Manchuria (now Changchun, Jilin province, northeast China). en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com The origins of Hong Kong’s ubiquitous pharmacy Watsons date back to 1828, to a clinic in the Pearl River Delta. In the port city of Canton (Guangzhou), a simple clinic was established by Dr James H. Braford to provide free eye surgery for locals. It expanded to become the Canton Dispensary in 1832 – the first retail chemist and druggist to install a soda fountain in China – and later that decade, Alexander Anderson and Peter Young, both naval surgeons in the British military as well as the East... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3175923/story-watsons-how-guangdong-eye-clinic-became?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3175923/story-watsons-how-guangdong-eye-clinic-became?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 30 Apr 2022 05:15:13 +0000