4S 
PHARMACY IN HUNGARY. 
be maintained ? It is not to be wondered at, but, on the 
contrary, it was natural to expect, that the means which 
have been adopted on three several occasions for the orga- 
nization of a system of pharmaceutical instruction, have 
proved ineffectual. Besides, if, in spite of the evils to 
which we have alluded, a scientific spirit was yet main- 
tained among the Hungarian pharmaceutists, the last 
vestiges of it would speedily be obliterated through the 
ignorance and arbitrary acts^of those in authority. 
Thus, for instance, there resides in one of the capital 
towns a person appointed as a kind of sanitary commis- 
sioner, who, possessing no medical degree, after having 
served in the campaigns of 1805 to 1S09, as medical assis- 
tant to the army, arrogated to himself the title of Doctor, 
and in 1810 was raised to the position he now occupies. 
This man, not content with enforcing the law in reference 
to Physicians and Surgeons, intermeddles with the affairs 
of the pharmaceutists over whom he has supervision, and 
in this capacity his ignorance and his arrogance are often 
manifested. As is often seen with those who have not 
regularly studied their profession, this pseudo-doctor changes 
his system as he would his coat; at one time an allopathist, 
at another a homoeopathist. But there is here hidden a 
secret motive. Pretending that the pharmaceutists are not 
capable of preparing his prescriptions, and that, therefore, 
he can place no confidence in them, he asserts the right 
of dispensing his own homoeopathic and allopathic medi 
cines, thus monopolizing the triple function of physician, 
surgeon, and pharmaceutist, and yet one of the pharmaceu- 
tisis in whom this commissioner pretends that he can place 
no confidence, was formerly a legalized pharmacien of 
Paris, and has laid himself out especially for the prepara- 
tion of homoeopathic medicines. 
The superior authorities of the government, in reply to 
the numerous complaints of the pharmaceutists, who have 
been so shamefully supplanted in the exercise of their art, 
