A treatise on pharmacy : designed as a text-book for the student, and as a guide for the physician and pharmacist, containing the officinal and many unofficinal formulas, and numerous examples of extemporaneous prescriptions / by Edward Parrish.

Date:
1874
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on pharmacy : designed as a text-book for the student, and as a guide for the physician and pharmacist, containing the officinal and many unofficinal formulas, and numerous examples of extemporaneous prescriptions / by Edward Parrish. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    Fio-, 36 exhibits the back view of the same counter, fourteen feet Tong, thirty-two and a half inches wide, and three feet high. The tojAs covered in part with marble, and back of the cases with oil-cloth; a large glass show-case occupies the left-hand end, but not the whole width, the bottom being seven inches below the top level of the counter. The whole structure is movable, being in three parts, so accurately fitted together as not to show a seam or crack at the junction. It contains no sink, the washing of bottles, implements, etc. being accomplished in a large sink in the operating counter back. The prescription scales are in a case near the right hand end of the counter over the oak slide for folding powders, and near the drawers for boxes, pill tiles, etc.; and the larger scales are near the middle, over the paper and label di-awers. A small mahogany desk with writing materials, and containing in a drawer blank labels, slips, blanks for prescriptions, etc., is placed on the counter immediately adjoining the prescription scales, thus avoiding the carrying of every prescription and label to the large desk used for the accounts and the general writing purposes of the establishment. The prescription counter may appropriately be a distinct feature in the store, located further from the entrance, sometimes in a line with the dispensing counter, but more generally at right angles to it. Fig. 38 shows the back view of one recently constructed, and although with a minimum of appointments, found ample for a very considerable prescription business. It is drawn with a case of shelving upon it, which, in front, is a show-case. Fig. 37 shows the front view of this counter. Fig. 37. Front of presorii)tlon counter. The dispensing counters have the front nnd ends of oiled walnut in panels, the drawers and shelving of the back of pine or poplar stained. All have white marble tops. The drawers arc arranged.