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

with the inspection of pharmacies in 1840 and I was allowed to draw the following conclusions. The county or town health officer inspected the pharmacies once a year in the presence of a committee. The chief administrative officier or magistrate or alderman, possibly the town captain and another physician or health officer, in some cases a councillor or juror were the members of the committee. The reports were written in the Latin or Hungarian language. I. The reports contain the address of the pharmacy, the name of its owner and personal data: the owner's, the provisory's, the journeyman's (subject, sodalit if qualified, adjutor if non-qualified), the apprentice's (practicans tyro) name, age, religion, family status, place of birth, prcmilinary training (6 classes, journeyman's certificate, place of graduation), knowledge of languages, behaviour, diligence and moral. These latter data were detailed mainly in the case of the employed because they were natural requirements with the owner. More than one laboratory assinstant (complures laborantes) is seldom mentioned. II. The location of the pharmacy (officina), its suitability, equipment (nova machina vaporum for instance), the amount of medicaments (pharmaca simplicia, composita et praeparata), their quality, scales, weights, applicable containers, fast receptacles (vasa vitrea, fictilia, scatula, serinea), also the pharmacopoeia, poison book, defect book, taxa, the normal pricing of recipes (medical list), the list of debts, the authentication of weights (Pharmacopoea Austriaca provinciális, Taxa medicamentorum, Liber defectuum, Dispensatorium venerorum, Liber praesciptiorum) arc further on described. III. Mention is made then of the chamber in which the material was stored (Camera materialis), and of the workroom (Laboratorium), of the room where herbs and drugs were stored (Herbarium) and finally of the cellar (Aquarium, Cellarium). In their case it is important to know their state; whether their equipments and materials are apt for use; whether the rooms are light and comfortable enough and whether the stuffs (medicaments cruda) are stored at a sufficient amount. TV. Most of the reports deal with the separation of poisons