apothecary

Example Sentences

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These forests were the grocery store and apothecary, the garment district and hardware store, where food, medicines and the wood for everything was to be found.

From Seattle Times

The candy heart was born during the lozenge craze of the mid-1800s, when apothecaries sold medicated candies to soothe sore throats and suppress coughs.

From Seattle Times

Scott Bradley’s scenic design features a kind of giant apothecary desk with large drawers that seem to be spilling over with new discoveries and hypotheses.

From Los Angeles Times

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