Goodreads asked Kate Rose:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Kate Rose I have always been interested in healing and the medicines of the past. What fascinated me the most was how apothecaries became modern day doctors/ GPs and not the physicians of old and this was mostly down to the apothecaries being the first to provide free-medicine for those who couldn’t afford it. Prior to this, only the rich could seek treatment. Even then, it was the doctors’ remedies that were often more quack-like compared to the wholesome herbs of the apothecary. My hope is that medicine might one day go full-circle!

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