Merja had sent me this interesting FDC commemorating 300
Years of Pharmacies in Finland. Pharmacists or apothecaries as they were
also
referred to in those days are what
we would probably call Chemists now. Preparation
of medicines came to Finland with the monks in their monasteries. The first
pharmacies were founded in Turku and Viipuri also called Vyborg.
The oldest pharmacy in Finland, Turun Kauppatorin apteekki, was
founded 2.6.1689.
On the stamp you can
see an old pharmacy bottle, distillation equipment (the three flames under
it are symbols for the three centuries), a mortar and pestle and an
important medicinal plant, Digitalis purpurea (Common foxglove).
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