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Pharmacy   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



... of his recovery, is often a decisive remedy. Who would dare to say that in many cases, always excepting certain peculiar injuries, the touch of a superior being is not equal to all the resources of pharmacy? The mere pleasure of seeing him cures. He gives only a smile, or a hope, but ...
— The Life of Jesus • Ernest Renan
... although they indeed both professed and felt esteem for Canonico Petrarca, they abstained from expressing it at the villetta. But Frate Biagio of San Vivaldo was (by his own appointment) the friend of the house; and, being considered as very expert in pharmacy, had, day after day, brought over no indifferent store of simples, in ptisans, and other refections, during the continuance of Ser Giovanni's ailment. Something now moved him to cast about in his ...
— Imaginary Conversations and Poems - A Selection • Walter Savage Landor
... expectations are not quite so sanguine. That I may be as little burthensome as possible, I would willingly serve in your shop, by which means I may save you the expense of a journeyman, or porter at least, for I understand a little pharmacy, having employed some of my leisure hours in the practice of that art, while I lived with Mr. Potion; neither am I altogether ignorant of surgery, which I have studied with great pleasure and application."—"Oho! you did," says Crab. "Gentlemen, here is a complete artist! Studied surgery! ...
— The Adventures of Roderick Random • Tobias Smollett


Words linked to "Pharmacy" :   chemist's, apothecary's shop, pharmaceutics, medicine, pharmaceutical, medical specialty, pharmacopoeia, store


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