Herbalist vs Apothecary - What's the difference?
herbalist | apothecary |
A person who makes and provides/sells drugs and/or medicines.
* , scene 3 (First Folio ed.)
A drugstore or pharmacy.
* 1919 , S.A., “Pharmacy in Russia”, in Soviet Russia , volume 1, number 27,
* 1998 , Karen Holliday Tanner, Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait , University of Oklahoma Press (2001), ISBN 978-0-8061-3320-1,
* 2001 , Audrey Horning, “Archeology and the Science of Discovery”, in Barbara Heath et al., Jamestown Archeological Assessment , U.S. National Parks Service,
As nouns the difference between herbalist and apothecary
is that herbalist is a person who treats diseases by means of medicinal herbs while apothecary is a person who makes and provides/sells drugs and/or medicines.apothecary
English
Noun
(apothecaries)- O true Apothecarie !
Thy drugs are quicke. Thus with a ki??e I die.
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- The Russian people as a whole almost revered the apothecary , and they entered it as they would enter a sanctum.
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- He was befriended by a local druggist, Jay Miller, who worked at the apothecary at the corner of Sixth and Harrison Street.
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- Seeds found in a 1630s refuse-filled clay borrow pit, located near an apothecary , illustrate colonists (SIC) intense interest in experimenting with the medicinal qualities of New World plants.