Pharmacists of old : part 2

Abstract

This study is about our dead fellow pharmacists whom we all believe and pray that they all passed to a much better life with their Patron Saint in Heaven the Reverend Pharmacist John Lombardi of Rome who died in 1609, by recording that a Government dispensary for the use of poor sick people was first instituted at Valletta in 1833 after a strong recommendation for that purpose by Dr. John Davy, then serving as Army Surgeon here and later promoted Inspector General of the English Military Hospitals. That much needed social service was greatly appreciated and the poor users of Malta and Gozo ran to it by their thousands.