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PHARMACY IN SWEDEN. 
not seem likely to be long-lived there, and will soon become an 
historical curiosity. It is very probable — indeed, I believe it— 
that in Sweden as in other countries, many hysterical ladies, or 
malades imaginairesfm&le as well as female, have, perhaps, de- 
rived comfort from the potential homoeopathic sugar-grains and 
interesting conversations with the homoeopathic long-suffering 
Physician. But Swedes, in general, do not like this kind of 
medicine ; no foreign, and only one Swedish Physician practices 
homoeopathy in Stockholm, and, in the country, I believe, not a 
single one. 
Prescriptions (Receptee,) and the Price-list of Medicines 
(Medicinal Taxa.) — The Chemist must put on every prescrip- 
tion the price, which must be according to the rate of the price- 
list at that time. The Swedish price-list of medicines is revised 
every year and the price is changed according to the market-price 
of the drugs. 
Medicines for external use ought to have a colored label, and 
powerful medicines are to be sealed. 
The Chemist must prepare medicines according to the Swedish 
Pharmacopoeia, unless the physician has (expressis verbis) pre- 
scribed otherwise. The Chemist is forbidden to prepare prescrip- 
tions of other than physicians who are allowed to practice in 
Sweden ; and a list of them is every year published by the Colle- 
gium Medicum. 
As a physician is not allowed to keep an Apothecary shop, 
because he has no Pharmaceutical diploma, so the Chemist is not 
allowed to practice in medicine : the privilege of that is granted 
only to such persons as have gone through a complete medical 
course at any of the Swedish Universities in Upsala or Lund, or 
at the Medico- Chirurgical Academy of the Royal Caroline Insti- 
tution in Stockholm. To gain admission into the last-mentioned 
Academy, the student must have passed at some of the Univer- 
sities a philosophical and philological examination. 
Foreign physicians, unless they can present a diploma as Doc- 
tor of Medicine from a well-known University, are not allowed to 
practice medicine in Sweden without a so-called colloquium fami- 
liare in the Collegium Medicum, or medical course at the Royal 
Caroline Institution. 
As the time of the Apothecary is not employed in medical 
