Sophy Lynn opened the first dispensary in Notting Hill in 1988 in an old Chemist's store.
In larger towns chemists operate a rota to provide 24-hour cover - details are posted on chemist's windows.
The Burgh School was situated in the building occupied today by the chemist's shop at 66 High Street.
The doctors were of use to Natasha because they kissed and rubbed her bump, assuring her that it would soon pass if only the coachman went to the chemist's in the Arbat and got a powder and some pills in a pretty box for a ruble and seventy kopeks, and if she took those powders in boiled water at intervals of precisely two hours, neither more nor less.
