Apothecary (/əˈpɒθɪkəri/) is an archaic English term for a medical professional who formulates and dispenses materia medica (medicine) to physicians, surgeons, and patients. The modern terms 'pharmacist' and 'chemist' (British English) have taken over this role.
Historically, the term “apothecary” referred to both the person who manufactured and dispensed medicines (lowercase “a” for our purposes), and the shop in which those medicines were sold (capitalized “A”).
synonyms for pharmacy
On this page you'll find 4 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to pharmacy, such as: apothecary, dispensary, drugstore, and pharmacopoeia.
In Britain, a chemist's is often referred to as a pharmacy.
In NZ, Australia and the UK the term Chemist used to refer to pharmacies and pharmacists.
It is impossible to put a exact date when the word pharmacy originated since people were practicing medicine before the word even existed. Priests and Doctors in the medieval times were combining different ingredients or compounding, but was it called compounding, we are not sure.
The Greek root is pharmakeia, which means "medicines or cure," but also "witchcraft, spells, or potions." Definitions of pharmacy. a retail shop where medicine and other articles are sold.
There are two common abbreviations of pharmacy: phar. and Rx. If you want to make pharm. plural, simply add on an “s.” Rx, a more specialized abbreviation used mainly in those sectors dealing with medicine & pharmaceuticals, has no plural.
Synonyms of apothecary (noun pharmacist) dispenser. druggist. gallipot.
The Officina Profumo-Farmaceutica di Santa Maria Novella is a perfumery and herbalist shop in Florence, in Tuscany in central Italy. It is not a pharmacy and does not sell medicines, but is sometimes described as "the oldest pharmacy in the world".
The Santa Maria Novella Pharmacy is probably the oldest still-operating pharmacy in the world, and certainly the oldest in Italy. It was established in 1221, when the Dominican monks from the adjacent Basilica of Santa Maria Novella began growing herbs to make balms, salves and medicines for their infirmary.
In 1998 Ye Olde Chymist Shoppe in Knaresborough closed its doors as a chemist after trading since 1720, thereby making Reavley Chemist the oldest trading pharmacy in England.
Apothecary is a combination of IE * apo- (separate) and * dhē (to place) which gave rise to the Greek term apothēkē, which originally meant a warehouse for food and wine.
The word 'apothecary' is derived from apotheca, meaning a place where wine, spices and herbs were stored. During the thirteenth century it came into use in this country to describe a person who kept a stock of these commodities, which he sold from his shop or street stall.
Apothecary the Shop
"Apothecary" also came to refer to the shops owned by apothecaries where medicines and other products were sold. You can think of them as precursors to modern pharmacies.
Community pharmacy, also known as retail pharmacy, is the most common type of pharmacy that allows the public access to their medications and advice about their health.
From pharmaceutic + -al, from Latin pharmaceuticus (“of drugs”), from Ancient Greek φαρμακευτικός (pharmakeutikós, “drug maker”).
Snakes have been used for worship, magic potions and, medicine, and they have been the symbol of love, health, disease, medicine, pharmacy, immortality, death and even wisdom.
Mahadeva Lal Schroff: father of Indian pharmacy education.
Abstract. Opium has been known for millennia to relieve pain and its use for surgical analgesia has been recorded for several centuries. The Sumerian clay tablet (about 2100 BC) is considered to be the world's oldest recorded list of medical prescriptions.
The bowl of Hygieia has been used as a symbol of the pharmacy profession at least as far back as 1796, when it was used on a coin minted for the Parisian Society of Pharmacy.
noun. /ˈfɑːməsi/ /ˈfɑːrməsi/ (plural pharmacies) [countable] a shop, or part of one, that sells medicines and drugs.
Well established as a profession by the seventeenth century, the apothecaries were chemists, mixing and selling their own medicines. They sold drugs from a fixed shopfront, catering to other medical practitioners, such as surgeons, but also to lay customers walking in from the street.
A colonial apothecary practiced as doctor. Records kept by 18th-century Williamsburg's apothecaries show that they made house calls to treat patients, made and prescribed medicines, and trained apprentices. Some apothecaries were also trained as surgeons and man-midwives.