Pharmacy Daily | Dispensary Corner 16 Dec 10

LONG live his head! The embalmed head of King Henri IV of France has been positively identified by a team of forensic scientists. King Henry IV was assassinated in 1610 at the age of 57, and his remains were thought to have been lost to the mechanisms of revolution, after revolutionaries dug up and desecrated the graves of monarchs in 1793. Now it appears the King’s head was used as a macabre collector’s item passed down through the ages. The scientists identified the head through facial reconstruction; carbon dating; and comparisons between scars, marks and lesions apparent on the desiccated head with descriptions of the unfortunate King. A PIE a day.... A red-faced British baker has had to fess up to the fact that his pies contain Viagra, after a batch was stolen en route to the World Pie Eating Championships. According to reports. the baker used the drug as a preservative to stop potatoes in the pies becoming too mushy.

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