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Pharmacy  and  Chemistry. 
f  A.m.  Jour.  Pharrn. 
I  September,  1904. 
importance  of  their  trade.  The  entire  front  is  open  to  the  street  during 
business  hours ;  at  night  the  shop  is  closed  tightly  with  shutters 
so  that  no  one  may  enter.  About  the  walls  are  shelves,  and  all  this 
space  is  taken  up  with  an  array  of  chinaware  (porcelain)  pots  con- 
taining drugs.    These  pots  remind  one  of  the  similar  receptacles 
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used  in  the  seventeenth  century.  They  are  urn-like  in  shape,  and 
are  closed  with  a  porcelain  lid.  A  counter,  upon  which  all  drugs 
are  cut,  weighed  out,  wrapped  up  and  sold  to  the  customer,  has  a 
prominent  place.  There  is  also  a  desk,  where  we  find  the  scrupu- 
lously kept  account  books,  writing  material  and  the  ever-present 
Chinese  counting-board.    So  expert  and  rapid  is  the  Chinese  calcu- 
