1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
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 drugs, but the preparing and selling of drugs prescribed by others has now passed into the hands of duly qualified and authorized persons termed " chemists and drug* gists," while the apothecary, by modern legislation, has become a general medical practitioner,…
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