The Pharmaceutical era . conceivablethat his opinion of the utensil beariiiK his name wag notas high as it >>uKht In have Ixen. It is probable, how-ever, that he empliiveil an apotheeary for such taslis. Theapothecary develoiH-d into the phurmacist in Europe inthe latter part of the seventeenth century. This mortar,therefore, which purports to have been cast iu 1668, prob-ably antedates the rise of the retail drug business. The Wissems mortar is the pro|)erty of P. A. Couturier, Raby iV Iouturier, 15 Smith street, Brook-lyn, who represent the Closure Company ofBridgeto
The Pharmaceutical era . conceivablethat his opinion of the utensil beariiiK his name wag notas high as it >>uKht In have Ixen. It is probable, how-ever, that he empliiveil an apotheeary for such taslis. Theapothecary develoiH-d into the phurmacist in Europe inthe latter part of the seventeenth century. This mortar,therefore, which purports to have been cast iu 1668, prob-ably antedates the rise of the retail drug business. The Wissems mortar is the pro|)erty of P. A. Couturier, Raby iV Iouturier, 15 Smith street, Brook-lyn, who represent the Closure Company ofBridgeton, N. .1. Mr. Raby is a practical pharmacistand was for years of the DouKlas Fulton street, where the heirloom used to be on ex-hibition. It is a handsome piiHe of work, broad anddeep, like an inverted church bell. It weighs 54 poundsand stands about eiKht inches biKh. exclusive of thehandsome base. Mr. Raby has provided for it. It meas-ur. - iiin. ; :icrnss tlio tup. The prstlc. wlilfh is. what is known us a double-ender, is fourteen inches inscription is in a channel hollowed out for it justbeliiw the rim. and eonipletelv siirr(i\iMds the mortar. Itreads: .V lie,, llninis .\Iedela (IVciin (Jod Comes AllCurcl. II. Wisscins, ICOS. Aliout the middle of themortar is a belt of runninj; vines, fruits and flowers. Theremainder of the mortar is perfectly iilain, broadening atthe base by a suicissioii of eurvisl and beveled ridges The Wissems mortar is said by its owner to be theoldest in existence. It formed part of the collection leftby the late (ieorge Raker, an antiiiuarian of Brooklyn,who picke<l it U|i while pursuing liis investigations inMexico. How it got to Mexico is not Raby says it was doing duly as a conventbell in the City of Mexico, when Mr. Raker discoveredand purchaseil it. The same authority savs that themortar was cast at the great bell foundry of says that the casting of a boll or a mortar was at tha
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