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

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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SMYRNA. # # # * # # # 2. DRUGGIST v. PHARMACIST. All drug establishments are termed ''pharmacies and engage in all kinds of work pertaining thereto. In all there are about seventy-live active pharmacies in the city of Smyrna. 3, 4. EXPORTS AND IMPORTS OF DRUGS AND MEDICINES. The drugs, chemicals, proprietary articles, perfumes, and druggists' sundries exported to tLe United States during the year 1897 were as follows: Anise seed $898. 81 Licorice root 326, 831. 39 Olive oil 34, 908. 88 Soap 6, 463. 74 Gnm tragacantli $10,059,90 Nntgalls . 7,030.61 Opium 619, 043. 05 Styrax 1, 571, 59 Gum benzoin, rhubarb, olibanum, antimony, pure morphia, gum tragacanth, licorice root, licorice ])aste, nutgalls, styrax, opium, sesame seed, and castile soap, were shipped to European countries. The following drugs, chemicals, proprietary articles, perfumes, and druggist's sundries are imported from the United States: All of Colgate's and Lundborg's specialties, Ayers's Cuticura, Will- iams's shaving soap. Carter's pills, Murray & Lauman's Florida water, Seabury & Johnson's plasters, Listerine, St. Louis Chemical Company's aletris cordial and bromidia, antistiff, St. Jacob's oil, and Allcock's plasters. All proprietary articles are forbidden entry to this port unless the manufacturers comply with the Turkish Government's demand for formulas. Each constituent, and quantity of each, is required. This rule is not complied with by any of the manufacturers, and the supply is constantly short of the demand. What the pharmacists contrive to obtain is smuggled or, if not too large, entered by means of the French or Austrian post-offices. No American proprietary articles are imitated. 5. SALE OF DRUGS IN LAY STORES. Drugs, chemicals, proprietary articles, perfumes, druggists' sundries, etc., are sold in department stores or other stores not drug stores. Perry Davis's Pain Killer, until within two years, was sold generally throughout Smyrna by grocery keepers and department stores, but the sale of that article has been entirely suppressed. 6,7. PRESCRIPTIONS. Druggists invariably retain physicians' prescriptions when once filled. They are kept on file for a certain period of months and then destroyed.

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