chemist

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The most skilful chymists were instantly assembled: they were ordered to analyze the brandies, and to indicate, in the course of the day, the poison and the remedy.

From Paris as It Was and as It Is by Blagdon, Francis W.

Also the mystic language of Geber, used by chymists.

From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Grose, Francis

We have, for many thousands of years, been good astronomers, chymists, mathematicians, and philosophers.

From A Voyage to the Moon by Tucker, George

He frequently conversed upon astronomy with mathematicians; upon anatomy with surgeons; upon medicine with physicians; and with chymists upon the analysis of metals, not as a superficial inquirer, but as a complete master.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 06 Reviews, Political Tracts, and Lives of Eminent Persons by Johnson, Samuel

The chymists doe call antimony Proteus, from its various colouring.

From The Natural History of Wiltshire by Aubrey, John