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Pharmacy   /fˈɑrməsi/   Listen
noun
Pharmacy  n.  
1.
The art or practice of preparing and preserving drugs, and of compounding and dispensing medicines according to prescriptions of physicians; the occupation of an apothecary or a pharmaceutical chemist.
2.
A place where medicines are compounded; a drug store; an apothecary's shop.





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"Pharmacy" Quotes from Famous Books



... that day. They had shown that the prisoner had told the truth when he said he had gone to a pharmacy for medicine that night for his wife; and they had shown that a woman, answering the description of Jennie Brice, spent two days in a town called Horner, and had gone from there on Wednesday after the crime. And they had shown that this ...
— The Case of Jennie Brice • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... with lotions and literature, and could recommend a poet or prepare a poultice with equal skill. The ante-room to the village hall was her dispensary: it seemed to me remarkably complete, and to have as scientific an odour as any city pharmacy. I was glad to see that the Clan Maclean was so well supplied with ...
— Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland • Daniel Turner Holmes
... the broadly notched chimney sides, where fifty articles of negro pharmacy were kept—bunches of herbs, dried peppers, bladders of seeds, and bottles ...
— The Entailed Hat - Or, Patty Cannon's Times • George Alfred Townsend
... presenting a paper on such a frivolous subject to men who had shown themselves such ardent advocates of the higher pharmacy, of the "ologies" in preference to the groceries, perfumeries, and other "eries." But if perfumery could not hope to take an elevated position in the materiae pharmaceuticae, it might be accorded a place as an adjunct, ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 • Various
... affectionate wishes for Dr. Johnson's recovery, in which his friends, his country, and all mankind have so deep a stake:' and at the same time a full opinion upon his case by Dr. Gillespie, who, like Dr. Cullen, had the advantage of having passed through the gradations of surgery and pharmacy, and by study and practice had attained to such skill, that my father settled on him two hundred pounds a year for five years, and fifty pounds a year during his life, as an honorarium to secure his particular attendance. ...
— Life Of Johnson, Volume 4 (of 6) • Boswell


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