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lain, leave also to open an apothecary’s shop at Stutgard ;and promised to allow of no other in his dominions. Theapothecary received yearly from the Count a certain quantityof wine, barley, and rye ; but he, on the other hand, en-gaged to supply the court with as much confectionary asmight be required, at the rate of twelve schillings per pound. 8

Both these shops seem afterwards to have been aban-doned, and the Count and apothecary to have entertainedthe same opinion, that each could renounce his contractwhen he pleased. In the year 1468, one Albrecht Mulstei-ner, or Altumsteiner, from Nuremberg , was appointed apo-thecary, with a promise that no other private or public shopshould be tolerated, except that at Wirtemberg . Thepatent is similar to that given to Kettner, with this differ-ence, that it contains in addition, a catalogue of the differentarticles, with their prices.

An apothecary’s shop is mentioned at Tubingen , underCount Everhard, as an hereditary fief; the possessor ofwhich bound himself to serve as physician and apothecaryto the army in time of war.

In the year 1500, Ulric of Wirtemberg allowed oneSyriax Horn to establish an apothecary’s shop at Stutgard,and appointed him apothecary for six years. He wasobliged to swear that he would supply government and allpublic officers, as well as the Duke’s subjects, with medi-cines ; and the body physician was enjoined to visit the shoponce every year, in order to examine whether Horn con-ducted himself according to the regulations laid down forhim, and sold his medicines at the fixed prices.

In 1559, there were four apothecaries appointed in thisduchy, i.e. at Stutgard, Goppingen , Kalw, and Bintigheim,which were then, and still are called, the land apothecaries.At that time there was also an apothecary’s shop establishedin the ducal palace at Stutgard; which the consort ofDuke Christopher caused to be furnished at her own ex-pense; from whence the poor received, gratis, whatevermedicines they wanted. 0

The first apothecary’s shop at Hamburgh, belonged to the

8 Damit wir und die itnsern und auch fust raenglich, der die bruchen wirdet,versehen sy und die materyen und spetzyen, was das ist, das ein appentecker habensoil, das soil er geben a!s zytnlich und gewonlich ist in andern appentecken amnechsten umb unser land gelegen. . . . Er soil uns auch gutgemein confect geben sovil wir bedorfen und zu im nieincn werden, und sollen wir im geben fur einpfundt sollich confect zwolf schilling heller. Sattlers Geschichte dcs Hem>gthunuIVurtenberg unter den Grafen > vol. v. p. 159. Addenda, p.329.

® The humane disjiensalion of medicines by the Chinese should not be forgotten.In the public square of their cities they have a stone raised, of the height of ten