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Pedimenta of interest
Following on from the strange fellow that appeared in the previous issue as a plinth decoration in an early Australian pharmacy, here is another from a building in Serbia Montenegro.
The building depicted in the picture was constructed at the beginning of the 20th Century and served as premises where the third pharmacy in the town of Zemun, a major suburb of Belgrade situated on the estuary of the river Sava into Danube, was operated.
Zemun was a very well settled
and developed town with several
historic pharmacies. This, the
third pharmacy, was founded by
Hinko Streim on the outskirts of
Zemun in 1905, but later it was
moved to 16 Bezanijska Street,
in a newly built and elegantly
ornamented two storied building. The Streim family lived over the shop premises and the house is still well preserved today. It has retained the reliefs of apothecary emblems such as Esculap’s (Aesculapius) head and the bowl with snake. These quite unique decorations on the front facade over the pharmacy shop, were to symbolise the apothecary’s art and science and were common at that time. On
the ground floor, where the pharmacy was located, there is still a shop today and only the pharmacy emblems, dating to almost 100 years ago, remind us that this building was connected with pharmacy in the past. The pharmacy was well-known for a few patent medicines, such as Streim’s facial cream named Salvatore as was the name of the pharmacy. Streim’s pharmacy dealt with homeopathic drugs also. For his collaboration with the Nazis, when the war ended, Streim fled the country, but died soon after and so the pharmacy was nationalised, and closed down.
From: Dr Dusanka Parojcic, Belgrade University School of Pharmacy, Serbia Montenegro.
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