[Tagging] semi pharmacies

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

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> On 10 May 2022, at 12:28, ael via Tagging <tagging at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
> 
> The problem here is that "compounding" has a much wider meaning. It only
> acquires this rather special flavour in the context of a
> pharmacy/chemist.


exactly, in this case it seems useful to specify the kind of compounding.

By the way, in Germany (and likely elsewhere) there is significant difference between a pharmacy (in German Apotheke, has a pharmacist, is very regulated, sells prescription drugs) and a “chemist” (in German Drogerie, today generally chain stores, in very rare occasions still a place to buy stuff like chemical agents, cleaning and personal care products, incense, chemical equipment like glass, rubber tubes, and whatever), who may not sell medicines, but who may be compounding chemicals as well (just the very rare, ancient times leftover shops, not the chain stores, not sure they even exist any more, in my hometown, both such places I knew are gone for 2-3 decades).
For reference, no English wp article: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drogerie. the classic and now rare type was somehow like the 1910 picture in the article.

btw. also a nice example for different structure of wikipedia in different languages (maybe the Drogerie is similar to what you call a non-dispensing chemist, but they don’t have their own article)

Cheers Martin 
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