Apothecary

Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour: likewise a small act of folly unto him that is esteemed for wisdom and honour.

Julius Gustav Neubronner was a German apothecary and inventor.

Visitors get a feel for the colonial lifestyle by watching the costumed interpreters practice ancient crafts, such as blacksmithing and brickmaking, in much the same way they were practiced in 1700s America. People can stop by the apothecary to find out which medicines were used in colonial times or they can check out the milliner for fashionable accessories of the day.

What does Romeo buy from the apothecary to take his own life in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet?

[T]he poticaries and barbarus wryters call it [the iris] Irios in the genetiue caſe.

O true Appothecarie! / Thy drugs are quicke. Thus with a kiſſe I die.

The girls, though their illness was long and dangerous, recovered under Mrs. Palmer's care, who watched over them as if they had been her own; and from that time an affection, as valuable as it was pleasant, sprang up between them. When Lady Anne returned, she called, and talked about every thing but the apothecary's bill.

It amused me to see the bustle and the life in the apothecary's shop across the street.

[K]nowledge of philtres, aphrodisiacs, and other sexual stimulants spread from the Arabs and the Moors, from Egypt and India into the European herbals, pharmacopeias, and apothecaries’ lore, and, on a more indeterminate level, among alchemists, wizards, and occultists.

The Russian people as a whole almost revered the apothecary, and they entered it as they would enter a sanctum.