In pictures, a 100-year-old pharmacy tells the history of medicine in Egypt

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Stevenson Pharmacy was founded by an English pharmacist in 1915, and it is still located in the heart of Cairo with its crowded streets.

The pharmacy sells modern medicines, but the shelves and walls still bear the hallmarks of history and ancient origins in the early 20th century.

The pharmacy was designed and built by George Stephenson, who established a British chain of pharmacies starting in 1889. It was bought in the late 1940s by Egyptian pharmacist Ihsan Samman, who was driven by a love of authenticity to leave it unchanged.

Ehsan Samman, now 58, serves as a tour guide for visitors and history buffs, showing them the wonders of pharmacy in former times and the tools that shaped those times.

The pharmacy, which dates back more than a century, has become a place for selling modern medicines, as well as a gallery open to visitors six days a week from six to nine in the evening.

Among the pharmacy's most valuable possessions are old medicine bottles and vials, a laboratory in which chemists carefully mix drugs, and a door lock that worked efficiently until recently.

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