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Practical pharmacy: the arrangements, apparatus, and manipulations, of the pharmaceutical shop and laboratory / By Francis [sic] Mohr ... and Theophilus Redwood.
- Mohr, Francis.
- Date:
- 1849
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Practical pharmacy: the arrangements, apparatus, and manipulations, of the pharmaceutical shop and laboratory / By Francis [sic] Mohr ... and Theophilus Redwood. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![If it be intended to adopt this plan of dividing the shop into compartments, it will be necessary to consider, in the distribution . of the bottles and drawers, what articles would be most conve- niently placed in each compartment. Thus, the syrups, pills, extracts, tmctures, powders, distilled waters, and essential oils, are, with few exceptions, required in the dispensing compartment ; lo- zenges, articles of perfumery, most whole or unpowdered drugs, together with some of the distilled waters, tinctures, &c., should be in the retail compartment; the junior apprentice’s compartment may contain those articles that are the least frequently required ; while the fitting of the wholesale compartment must depend on the character of this class of business. There are three kinds of receptacles, namely, drawers, jars, and bottles, that are required for containing the several substances which are arranged against the walls. In some old establishments a much larger number of drawers were used than is generally the case in those of the present day. The Pharmaceutist now uses, with advantage, a larger number of bottles, and not so many drawers. It will be found to conduce much to the symmetrical appearance of the shop, if the fittings be so arranged that the lines formed by the drawers, shelves, &c., shall run uniformly round the apartment. The cases of drawers, which will form the first or lowest part of the fittings, ought not to be high; about thirty-nine or forty inches will be found to be a good height from the ground to the top of the drawers. If they extend higher, it will necessarily cause a great part of the bottles to be placed so high up against the wall as to be beyond reach of the arm, without the aid of a step-ladder. This is an inconvenience that ought to be avoided as much ag pos- sible; and with this view it will be well to have a deep cornice, above the shelves (as shewn in fig. 10,) whenever the size of the apartment will admit of it.] The Dispensing Counter.—The construction of the dispensing counter is deserving of special and minute consideration. The ease, accuracy, and expedition, with which the dispenser performs his work, will, in great measure, depend upon the arrangement of this part of the fittings. It is a very inconvenient mode of proceeding to have the drawers fitted into the counter without any reference to their particular applications, and then to appropriate them as they are required ; for it is much easier to plan a well-arranged counter on paper, than to make the required alterations in one that has been imperfectly constructed. The first point to be considered is, what part of the shop shall be](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29318531_0001_0027.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
