Long time ago, before inception of the NHS, most prescriptions were private. If the doctor set more than one supply the pharmacist could either retain the prescription or return it to the patient.
Pharmacists would use a code to show what price had been charged so that if the prescription was taken to another pharmacy the next pharmacist would know what had already been charged. I know of at least 3 different codes that were used, all using a word or phrase with 10 unique characters. For example, the code I was told was used by Boots was ‘O Push Trade’ where o=1, p=2 etc to e=0.
Another code, and the one used for this puzzle was the name of a pharmaceutical product which is no longer sold, one of the many products that was used before being replaced by products with a proven scientific value. The product in question was a mixture of a sweet ‘carrier’ and an item more commonly found in the cleaning products cupboard. From the characters given, and the hint, you have to find the name of the product to find the remaining characters.
If this does not make sense please email me for an explanation.
With thanks to the Midlothian Ranger Service for permission to place this series of caches.
Congratulations to den sure kalkun on his FTF. Glad to know that my first puzzle cache is solvable!
Cache can be found at N 55 OS.(I-4)R(B-1) W 3 12.SIO
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Congratulations to den sure kalkun on FTF.