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The pharmacy, essential part of the English physician, was transplanted with all its characteristic features to the Indies. In these establishments there was a tendency to expend almost exclusively so-called "drugs of Castile." Their prices were too high so the Hospital St. John of God established a subsidy for providing medicines to the poor.

these high prices also contributed to the spread within the population the use of herbs and medicinal mixtures of indigenous origin.

The apothecary trade was regulated by the Real Audiencia and established the rule that no prescription could be released without the authorization of a physician. However, in practice, the pharmacists were prescriptions like this:

"A hysterical colic apothecary sent to water fennel, cloves and poultices piperine rue and fried onions applied in the womb. "

The apothecaries were usually supported by a convent or the hospital. However, in the eighteenth century began to operate private pharmacies to the point that in the second half of the protests for what is considered "excessive" growth of these establishments in relation to a city whose population was barely 16,000 inhabitants.

We assume that those who exercised as doctors in their homes, made up drugs for their patients or the general public because there was no strict control. Alfaro, quack doctor, preparing their own medicines by 1790.

in 1784 was increased control over private pharmacies, and beginning the nineteenth century, reached regulations require pharmacists to "assist the pharmacy all day and night sleeping in the next room to go to the office recipes and putting a bell to be tied to the bars of the same pharmacy so that it serves the public. "

Despite being banned in the whole spirit of the Indians, doctors and the prior of the Hospital de San Juan de Dios obtain licenses to sell liquor in the pharmacy of the institution strictly medicinal purposes. The people believed in spirits, not only for the disinfecting properties of this liquor alcohol content, but also because he attributed many therapeutic properties.

The prior, doctors José de la Cruz and Juan F. Castro and Diego de Aguilar surgeon concurred virtues attributed to the remarkable spirit against erysipelas, esquinancia, of a palsy, rheumatic pains, cancer and fistulous sores, gangrene, the abscesses, edema and estioremas. Also believed in the spirit as infallible against Colds therapy unruly and dropsy.

Despite the assurances given by the monks of the spirit would be applied for purely medicinal the Royal Court was determined to keep alive the ban.

Contrary to the assertions of historians such as Ibanez and Soriano Lleras, the first pharmacy could find no data for 1631 as they claim. On a daily shopping list manager a House appears the "Botica Gutierrez" in 1614. It is possible that this pharmacy is the same as found 12 years later. Pedro Gutierrez's pharmacy appears as the subject of a prohibition to receive recipes that are not initialed by medical graduates.

also have data about the existence of a pharmacy in the Plaza Mayor (1631), attended by the owner, Pedro Lopez, who opened the Jesuits at the time and which must necessarily own the hospital.

In 1651 the chemist is identified Urribarri Antonio as a witness at trial on the Protobarberato. In 1763 the Cortes Protomedicato issued to Juan Jose Mangue license to practice as a pharmacist, pharmacy opened in the bottom of the Colegio del Rosario. In 1763 also runs the aforementioned pharmacy deleting, problems in the Plaza, which replaced it from the chemist Salgado, 1771.

In 1767 he moved the pharmacy of the Society of Jesus in San Juan de Dios hospital. At that time was the "best stocked and staffed in the capital" with the obligation to serve the poor of both the hospital and the asylum of the Hospice. By then there were two pharmacists attending, a greater or first, Fray Salvador Delgado, and a second chemist Fray Narciso Rico.

The apothecaries increase in the early nineteenth century. With increased demand, should be subject to the attention of santafereño entrepreneurship.

In 1807 Jaime Sierra was apothecary at the Plaza and adjacent to a chicha, also owned. The two dissimilar institutions were connected by an open window in the dividing wall.
The council threatened to revoke its license, which never fulfilled. 3301940916609711