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Britannica 11th

Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition

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Apothecary

Britannica 11th

APOTHECARY (from the Lai. afxilhecarius, a keeper of an apothccti, Gr. OTO^KI/, a store), a word used by Galen to denote the repository where his medicines were kept, now obsolete in its original sense. An apothecary was one who prepared, sold and prescribed d ...

Vol. 2, pp. 205-206 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 330.0

... Princess Henriette Catherine of Orange. In 1698 he married Anna Luise Fose, an apothecary's daughter of Dessau, in spite of his mother's long and earnest opposition, and subsequently he procured for her the rank of a princess from the emperor (1701). Their ma ...

Vol. 2, pp. 46-47 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 12.0

Apostolici

Britannica 11th

... ountains in the neighbourhood of Vercelli. Not till the 23rd APOSTOLIC MAJESTY— APOTHECARY of March 1307 were the sectaries definitively overcome. The Catholic crusaders seized Dolcino in his entrenchments on Mount Kubcllo, and the pope at once announced the h ...

Vol. 2, pp. 204-205 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 12.0