Palla Ákos szerk.: Az Országos Orvostörténeti Könyvtár közleményei 17. (Budapest, 1960)

Prof. Dr. Halmai János: Prüfungsurkunden über Apotheken-Kontrolle in Ungarn in der ersten Hälfte des XIX-ten Jahrhunderts

PHARMACY INSPECTION REPORTS IN THE FIRST PART OF THE 19TH CENTURY IN HUNGARY JÁNOS HA LMA I, prof. (Budapest) A

ccording to Szepes' pharmacies had been inspected to public interest already at a very early date. The pharmacy in Buda for instance was supervised in 1300 and this act was the task of the town physician as the town's special person of authority. I could not find any data to support this thesis and Szepes himself does not cite evident sources for this. The last indent inthe 10th paragraph of the Ordo politiae which was enacted in 1552, contains, according to Baradlay

2 measures on this with the following text: "It is ordered and wanted that the pharmacies be properly and industriously surveyed and inspected at least once a year by qualified persons entitled to do that; that the inspectors clear away all out-ofdate, stale and inefficient goods and species, further on, that they order furnishing the pharmacies with good, fresh and usable material ant that the prince of the recipes be not raised too high in order not to oblige the patients to make extra efforts when paying for the medicament." The „Lex sanitaria Ferdinandina" enacted in 1664 ordains the inspection of pharmacies and refors to several more pharmaceutical aspects. Its 35. article puts down, according to Baradlay

3 the following: ,,The pharmacies must be controlled. Every civil pharmacy, as had been also the custom, should be carefully examinded by the dean, 3 or 4 doctors and 2 pharmactists after it had been furnished with roots, simples, flowers and other goods and shortcomings or defects, should any of them occur, be elimi-