Commerce in crude drugs
Like almost all other basic commodities, the
trade in crude drugs is of great antiquity. The necessity for goods to be
collected, graded, transported and distributed effectively has rarely been
considered by the pharmacist as part of his or her remit and thus it has been
left to the tradel or merchant to perform this less scientific but by the same
token important group of tasks. The essentials of the trade are still very much
the same as they were 10, 100 or 1000 years ago, though the speed and efficiency
with which they can be performed has improved exponentially with time. It is
well within quite young living memory that one had to book a telephone call to
one's supplier in Brazil, China or India some hours or perhaps a day in
advance: now communications by fax, or increasingly popularly by e-rnail take
moments to perform, and replies come with similar alacrity.
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