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AT THE PHARMACY
Pharmacy is a specialized shop, where medicines and items for
medical care are sold. There are usually two departments there:
prescription department and chemist’s department and also there are
some working rooms for the stuff. At the prescription department
medicines are made up according to the doctor’s administration. At
the chemist’s department medicines and medicinal plants may be
bought without any prescriptions. The working areas of a pharmacy
include rooms for glassware washing, drying and sterilization; an
analytical laboratory, special rooms for medicines storing and
dispensing.
At the pharmacy medicines are kept either in special drug
cabinets or on the open shelves or in refrigerators. For instance, strong
medicines and toxic agents must be kept separately and locked. The
drugs prepared at the pharmacy for the immediate use should be
stored in a refrigerator. Powders, galenical preparations, and
medicines made of medicinal plants are usually held at a constant
room temperature on the shelves protected from light. Medical care
items (hot-water bottles, medicine droppers, thermometers, bandages
etc), and some goods which are not connected directly to medicine
(cosmetics, shampoos, tooth pastes and others) are kept and displayed
separately from drugs.
Every bottle or box with a medicine should be labeled indicating
its name, dosage, intake directions, indications or contraindications
information about the manufacturer and the expiry date. It’s very
important for sick people as well as for those who take care of them to
know all necessary information before using a particular medicine.
There are various kinds of packages and production forms of
medicines: boxes and parcels of different powders, ampoules for
intramuscular and intravenous injections; tubes of rubbing ointments ,
various pills, , tablets, etc. As a rule all medicines are classified and
arranged in the pharmacy’s glass cases according to their therapeutic
use: drugs for cough, cardiac medicines, pain or fever relievers and so
on. For exampled:
• analgesics - to kill pain;
• antiarrhythmics - to control irregular heartbeat;