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On the ground floor of the Solomos mansion, from 1838 to 1917, the Pelekasis' pharmacy operated.

Doctors Dionysios Verettas and Dimitrios Pelekasis, who were founders and supporters of the pharmacy, hired Spyridon Pelekasis as an apprentice pharmacist. After practicing, Pelekasis passed practical examinations and received his pharmacist's license in 1838. From then on, the pharmacy operated under his name and management until 1877 when he passed away and the spetsaria was taken over by his children.

From the 17th to the 19th century, in the absence of clubs and cafes, the pharmacy functioned as meeting rooms for scientists, mainly doctors, who in their free time went to the spetsaria and discussed political, scientific and social issues. "All political or rather national issues, all scientific, all social, all anecdotal, all cheerful, were discussed, discussed, discussed, discussed, discussed, discussed, discussed, discussed, discussed. "

The poet Andreas Martzokis, who later recounted that he "constructed wretched catapults and perfect verses", studied at Pelekasis' pharmacy .