. The Pharmaceutical era. the continent and the offerlooked all ritht. 200 lire (.?40) per mouth, and lire($30) towards my traveling expenses there and back. Ifonnd out later on that in Italy every pound of baggagehas to be paid for, and that my second-class fare fromLondon to Kome and back came to about $60, but onealways buys ones experience. A Roman Pharmacy. The shop itself impressed mo a good deal. A loftypainte<l ceiling anii handsome tiled floor, hanging glasschandeliers, marble-toiipod counter, and sponge case tomatch, mirror-backed fittings, and the most elegant andexpensive t
. The Pharmaceutical era. the continent and the offerlooked all ritht. 200 lire (.?40) per mouth, and lire($30) towards my traveling expenses there and back. Ifonnd out later on that in Italy every pound of baggagehas to be paid for, and that my second-class fare fromLondon to Kome and back came to about $60, but onealways buys ones experience. A Roman Pharmacy. The shop itself impressed mo a good deal. A loftypainte<l ceiling anii handsome tiled floor, hanging glasschandeliers, marble-toiipod counter, and sponge case tomatch, mirror-backed fittings, and the most elegant andexpensive toilet requisites in the counter cases. All thebottles were kept in cases, and some of them merely con-tained colored water; in fact, many details were arrangedmore for show than use. In the windows were theusual carboy and the leading English and foreign pat-ents. And while spciaking of I must mention avery facade I noticed in a small street leadingout of the Torso (Kocoa di Leone). This house, known. St Aagelo aad St. Peters. as the Farmacia Sinimberghi. has the spaces betweenthe upper windows decorated with well designed paintedfigures, representing Pharmacy. Medicine. Chemistry andBotany: Hipiwcrafes, Galen, Volta aud Linnanis. It isquite unique in its way. and the owner does a good higli-elass business, I understood. Italian Assistants. The tourist season had just commenceil when I arrivedin October, and we were pretty busy until Easter. Theother assistants were all Italians, and I noticed theyounger ones .absented themselves for some hours understood afterwards that this was to enable themto follow the four years curriculum to obtain adiploma, and which seemed to entail a good deal of workand ; but they did not dread the examinations inthe same way as we do. A qualified man usually earnedfrom $20 a month, according to his ability and experi-ence. Dispensing lEngllsh and Italian^was luy regular work. Besides prescriptions from
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