[3] The urbanization at the end of the 19th century saw the laying of the so-called Mountain Ringway (Italian: Circonvallazione a Monte) and the high-class Art Nouveau buildings of Corso Magenta and the Sant'Anna funicular being built immediately south of the church, but without affecting the integrity of the ancient hamlet.

[5] The church features a single nave, several lateral chapels, and a 16th-century portal with a marble relief of the Holy Family.

The most used preparations were the manna, tablets against teniasis, white sugar, Chinese potions, English salts, cinnamon, poppy flowers and a “spirit made of incense, myrrh, aloe and wine”.

Amongst the clients, at the beginning of the 19th century there was the physician Angelo Bruzick, the chirurg Rocco Artisi of Voltri, the consul of Denmark Giuseppe Alessi Morellet, the pharmacy of the Genoese public hospital of Pammatone.

Later the pharmacy had contact with the famous and controversial Parisian doctor Louis Le Roy, author of “La medicina curativa” published in Naples in 1825 in four volumes.