apothecary

Example Sentences

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Topped by an apartment, its street-level retail space over the years supplied a range of what broadly could be called apothecary assistance, medicinal and non-.

From Seattle Times

In their shops, apothecaries displayed dismembered human body parts, before eventually mixing them into medicines—a practice scholars today call “medicinal cannibalism.”

From Scientific American

Carmela, nervous as she works with arsenic for the first time, is met with quips from one of the other apothecary workers: “What, afraid you’re going to kill someone?”

From Seattle Times

As Camper English explains in “Doctors and Distillers,” it did take a few centuries of scientific experimentation to move past those medieval apothecaries.

From New York Times

An 18th-century apothecary covertly sells poison to oppressed women, while a modern-day historian investigates a resulting tragedy.

From Washington Post