The drug trade in foreign countries : vol. XIV : reports from the consuls of the United States upon the laws and regulations governing : 1. the drug business : 2. druggists v. pharmacists : 3. exports of drugs and chemicals : 4. imports of drugs and medicines : 5. sale of drugs and medicines in lay stores : 6. disposal of prescriptions : 7. renewal of prescriptions : 8. practice of pharmacy / issued from the Bureau of Foreign Commerce, Department of State.

  • United States. Bureau of Foreign Commerce.
Date:
1898
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Credit: The drug trade in foreign countries : vol. XIV : reports from the consuls of the United States upon the laws and regulations governing : 1. the drug business : 2. druggists v. pharmacists : 3. exports of drugs and chemicals : 4. imports of drugs and medicines : 5. sale of drugs and medicines in lay stores : 6. disposal of prescriptions : 7. renewal of prescriptions : 8. practice of pharmacy / issued from the Bureau of Foreign Commerce, Department of State. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    strictly obeyed, niul in case of a violation of the same that violators are punished. Under said law, concessioiis for drug stores or apothecaries were granted only to such persons as had graduated froui a university within the Crown hinds ))elonj;ing to tlu^ Enii)ir<', and liad dijdonias as ])harina- cists, and also there was taken into (jonsideration the necessity for an apothecary and the number of i)eople to be benefited by the same. These laws, Avhile undergoing many changes from time to time, as the necessitiesof the then existing form of government required, were finally revised and issued anew under the name of sanitary laws for the Empire of Austria on Ai)ril 30, 1870, and again amended by the law passed on January 5, 1896, which went into efiect on June 1, 1890. Hugo Donzelmann, Consul. Prague, March 12, 1898. [The remainder of Consul Donzelmann's interesting report treats of technical matters, fully covered by the report of Consul Hossfeld, of Trieste.! BELGIUM. Pursuant to instructions coiit lined in the circular of January 25 last, I have the honor to submit the following iujbrmation relative to the drug trade and practice of pharmacy in Belgium. Full and complete answers to some of the interrogatories can not be given for want of the necessary official statistics. All available details are, however, included in these replies. 1. THE DRUG BUSINESS. The extent and number of drug stores in Belgium are not directly restricted by law. Any pharmacist, duly qualified in accordance with the requirements of law, may establish himself in business, provided he comply with the laws governing its conduct and the payment of the license tax. This last-mentioned tax in Ghent varies from $2.04 to $35.71 annually, according to the importance of the establishment. The license itself jDrescribes the kind of business to be carried on. 2. DRUGGISTS v. PHARMACISTS. The two branches of the drug trade in Belgium are, first, prescrip- tion drug stores (although a little broader term would be more applica- ble), or pharmacists proper, and, second, general drug stores, without a prescription department. The two classes are distinct and entirely well defined in their trade, but owing to the similarity of terms in the French and English languages the line of demarkation is not easily recognized without further explanation. The two French words em- ployed are pharmaciens and droguistes.