Old Doctor Butler's Head Explained

Old Doctor Butler's Head is a pub in Mason's Avenue, London EC2. The pub was named after the physician William Butler, a doctor at the court of James I.^{[1] [2]} Butler is credited with inventing the medicinal drink Dr Butler’s purging ale, which became popular in 17th-century England.^[3]

The pub is a Grade II listed building, probably dating back to the early 19th century.

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Notes and References

1. Book: Meyer's British Chronicle, a universal review of british literature. 1827. Bibliographic Institution. 343.
2. Book: The Pharmaceutical Era. 1899. D. O. Haynes & Company. 213.
3. This was made "by hanging a thin canvas bag containing senna, polypody of oak, agrimony, maidenhair and scurvy grass in a barrel of strong ale" and was a "strongly laxative ale", Ivan Day, "More on Hippocras", http://historicfood.com. Retrieved 8 November 2013.