Noun

(pharmacies)

A place where prescription drugs are dispensed, a dispensary.

The science of medicinal substances comprising pharmaceutics, pharmaceutical chemistry, pharmacology, phytochemistry and forensics.

The occupation of a pharmacist.

Noun

(label) The ancient search for a universal panacea, and of the philosopher's stone, that eventually developed into chemistry.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-21, volume=411, issue=8892, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Magician’s brain , passage=The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy .}}

(label) The causing of any sort of mysterious sudden transmutation.

Any elaborate transformation process or algorithm.