[Hospital drug supply around the turn of the century--the founding of the pharmacy at the city hospital of Worms].

Around the turn of the century drug supply of the civil hospital in Worms was carried out by local pharmacists, drug distribution and preparation of simple solutions by a nurse. The municipal authorities which were responsible for the hospital were sure that the establishment of a pharmacy in the hospital itself could improve drug supply. The study shows how the authorities went through with the opening of a hospital pharmacy despite the expected opposition of the local pharmacists and that such an establishment and the employment of a pharmacist were profitable even for a hospital with only 200 beds.