PHARMACY IN SWEDEN* 
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practice, and as his competence is sufficient, he can, if he loves 
science, employ his spare hours with tranquillity in working in 
that branch of science which he most affectionately embraces. 
If, in general, a greater scientific activity of the Pharmaceuti- 
cal profession in Sweden is to be desired, we must, however, with 
pleasure remember that private individuals, distinguished in other 
countries for original scientific researches, have been met with 
and are still to be found in Sweden. I will only here mention 
the most distinguished : — For about a century ago lived in Rop- 
ing (a very small, and, for the greatest part of the world, unknown 
town In Sweden) an Apothecary and Chemist, who, with great 
eagerness, was laboring in Chemistry. The good Burghers in 
Koping very likely thought him a clever Apothecary, but none 
of them could foretell that their diligent friend the Chemist, 
Carl Wilhelm (Charles William} Scheele, in his small insignificant 
shop, was operating with experiments the result of which should 
astonish the whole scientific world. 
Inspection of the Shops. — The Chemists' shops in Sweden 
must, according to the regulatious, be inspected every year. These 
inspections are performed in Stockholm by two professors or 
assistant-professors to the Royal Caroline Institution, in presence 
of two Members of Collegium Medicum, and in the country of 
the official Physician of the province, together with a magistrate. 
As the official Physician of the province has not time enough 
for Pharmacognosy, the Collegium Medicum has of late proposed 
to the Government a change in inspecting the shops in the coun- 
try, so that, as in some parts of Germany, the whole country will 
be divided into a certain number of districts, and every district 
obtain a travelling inspector. 
Should the inspector find any adulterated or bad medicine it 
must be immediately destroyed. 
If an Apothecary is three times found to have sold adulterated 
medicines, he directly loses his privilege, and must give up his 
shop to another person. 
It is at the same time a duty and a satisfaction for me to 
state, that medicines in Sweden are commonly very good, and 
when adulterated articles are met with are usually such as are 
imported. 
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