[Review of the development of pharmacy and apothecaries in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in the area of Sarajevo].

The development of pharmacy and dispensaries in Bosnia and Herzegovina started very early and it could be divided into several periods from which we select the period of Turkish and Austro-Hungarian rules as they had organized activities. In remote times, beginnings of treatment of diseases belong to herbalists who in our parts even then were a significant guild. That guild saw an intensive development in the times of Turkish rule. In Sarajevo, the sale of medicines in shops was established as early as that period. They resembled today's drugstores and had supervision of the condition and use of medicines which was done strictly. The Austro-Hungarian period in Bosnia and Herzegovina meant a great change in the development of pharmacy and health care generally and since then pharmacy and dispensaries in Bosnia and Herzegovina have been organized according to European standards, while the care of making dispensing and trading in medicines was taken over by trained pharmacists.