Pharmacy in Serbia grew from monastery medicine, local herbal practice and apothecary traditions carried through Balkan and Central European trade. During the nineteenth century, trained pharmacists and permanent town pharmacies became part of the developing state health service.
Professional pharmacy
Licensing, official pharmacopoeias and university education gradually standardised preparation and dispensing. The twentieth century brought industrial medicines and larger public networks, while pharmacists retained responsibility for compounding, quality and patient advice.
Today's system includes public and private pharmacies, a professional chamber and national medicines regulation. The duty-pharmacy network remains locally organised, continuing pharmacy's long role as an accessible first point of health advice.