[Examples of pharmacies founded in Istanbul at the beginning of the twentieth century].

In this issue we presented five more pharmacies which have historical collections. Infortunately those pharmacies have lost their historical atmosphere, while they have some historical collections. We can find some old books about pharmacy, diploma written in Ottoman language, pharmacy licence, registration note-book, etc. among them. We also noticed some glass, porcelain and brass mortars and pestles in different diameters, weights, portable boxed scales which were the most common ones, cobalt blue syrup bottles which protect the contents from the light, gold gilded porcelain extract and essence bottles with golden gildedor written with golden gild labels, glass funnels, essence oil bottles, cork presser in the shape of a crocodile. Moreover we can see some drugs in their original cartons, which are imported from London, Paris, New York, Leverkusen, Mannheim and Budapest; lamplight, oil paintings of famous Turkish physician Ibn-i Sina, and old Venetian pharmacy, a mythological figure personality in Turkish medical folklore, Lokman Hekim. We can give the following books as examples of rare books which can be seen in those pharmacies: Pathologie speciale, 1888, Paris; Dorvault L'Officine 1910, 1928, 1948, Paris; Dictionnaire Tefeyuz Français-Ottoman 1911, Constantinople; First Turkish Pharmacopoeia, 1930; formulaire Pratique de Therapeutique et de Pharmacologie, 1955. some of the retired pharmacists also keep some historical instruments in their personal collection. We wish sincerely that those collections, also, will take their place in the pharmacy museums soon.