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Painted carved wood
Alvaiázere, Portugal
Founded in 1880
Inv. no. 1810
Pharmacy Museum Lisbon
The Pacheco Pereira Pharmacy is from the end of the 19th century, of polychrome wood and is made up of two distinct areas from different periods: the more recent attending area and the laboratory area.
With simple lines, the pharmacy consists of wooden cabinets with glass doors and shelves at the top, drawers and wooden doors at the bottom of the furniture. Both areas are decorated with vegetal motifs, painted in bright green, orange, blue and yellow colors. Taking into account their wide use, it is possible that the doors of the laboratory may no longer be the originals.
The counter with a wooden balustrade on both sides prevents customers from entering the quasi-sacred place, where pharmacists' assistants or apprentices ground drugs, weighed substances, mixed dyes or manipulated ointments. This pharmacy displays an excellent collection of 19th century pharmacy stoneware from different manufacturers.
In addition to the stoneware set, we can also admire several pharmacies flasks in colorless and yellow glass with their original labels, with highlight to the collection of pharmacy flasks of colorless glass that belonged to the “EMILIO FRAGOSO PHARMACY”.
Emílio Fragoso (1859-1939) was the head of the pharmaceutical service of the Hospitais Civis de Lisboa (Lisbon Civil Hospital). In the last decade of the 19th century, he was a prominent specialist in pharmaceutical preparations, namely of granulated drugs.