Apothecary
noun
A person who prepares and sells medicines and drugs.
The town's apothecary can help with your medical needs.
Often appears as...
- local apothecary
- apothecary shop
noun
A pharmacy or drugstore.
Please pick up the prescription from the apothecary.
Often appears as...
- apothecary's license
- an apothecary's shop
Usage tips
Formal
Historical, Legal
noun
A person who prepares and sells medicines and drugs.
The town's apothecary can help with your medical needs.
Often appears as...
- local apothecary
- apothecary shop
noun
A pharmacy or drugstore.
Please pick up the prescription from the apothecary.
Often appears as...
- apothecary's license
- an apothecary's shop
Usage tips
Formal
Historical, Legal
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Role
An apothecary was once a key health professional, like today's pharmacists.
In medieval times, an apothecary would also diagnose illnesses.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Depictions
Apothecaries often appear in historical or fantasy literature and films.
The apothecary in the novel mixed potions and remedies.
Pro Tip 3/3Archaic Usage
The term is not commonly used today except for effect or historical context.
They visited an old apothecary shop on their historical tour.
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Role
An apothecary was once a key health professional, like today's pharmacists.
In medieval times, an apothecary would also diagnose illnesses.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Depictions
Apothecaries often appear in historical or fantasy literature and films.
The apothecary in the novel mixed potions and remedies.
Pro Tip 3/3Archaic Usage
The term is not commonly used today except for effect or historical context.
They visited an old apothecary shop on their historical tour.
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Role
An apothecary was once a key health professional, like today's pharmacists.
In medieval times, an apothecary would also diagnose illnesses.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Depictions
Apothecaries often appear in historical or fantasy literature and films.
The apothecary in the novel mixed potions and remedies.
Pro Tip 3/3Archaic Usage
The term is not commonly used today except for effect or historical context.
They visited an old apothecary shop on their historical tour.
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Africa’s rhyming history...
particularly interested in European shipbuilding and in the carpentry and design that lay behind it in another letter to his brother King as these letters were invariably addressed he asked for two physicians to apothecaries and one surgeon to glean what he could from Western medicine though such assistance was promised at the
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to a country surgeon and apothecary in Sodbury, near Bristol, he heard a dairy maid say, "I shall never have smallpox, for I have had cowpox. I shall never have an ugly, pockmarked face." Cowpox is a skin disease that resembles smallpox and infects cows. Later on, as a physician,
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Africa’s rhyming history...
particularly interested in European shipbuilding and in the carpentry and design that lay behind it in another letter to his brother King as these letters were invariably addressed he asked for two physicians to apothecaries and one surgeon to glean what he could from Western medicine though such assistance was promised at the
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How we conquered the...
to a country surgeon and apothecary in Sodbury, near Bristol, he heard a dairy maid say, "I shall never have smallpox, for I have had cowpox. I shall never have an ugly, pockmarked face." Cowpox is a skin disease that resembles smallpox and infects cows. Later on, as a physician,
Example 1 of 2
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Tom Reiss
American Author
Eighteenth-century doctors prescribed sugar pills for nearly everything: heart problems, headache, consumption, labor pains, insanity, old age, and blindness. Hence, the French expression 'like an apothecary without sugar' meant someone in an utterly hopeless situation.
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Paracelsus
Swiss Scientist
This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
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Tom Reiss
American Author
Eighteenth-century doctors prescribed sugar pills for nearly everything: heart problems, headache, consumption, labor pains, insanity, old age, and blindness. Hence, the French expression 'like an apothecary without sugar' meant someone in an utterly hopeless situation.
Quote examples
Paracelsus
Swiss Scientist
This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
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