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Webster 1913 Edition
Pharmacy
Phar′ma-cy
,Noun.
[OE.
fermacie
, OF. farmacie
, pharmacie
, F. pharmacie
, Gr. φαρμακεία
, fr. φαρμακεύειν
to administer or use medicines, fr. φάρμακον
medicine.] 1.
The art or practice of preparing and preserving drugs, and of compounding and dispensing medicines according to prescriptions of physicians; the occupation of an apothecary or a pharmaceutical chemist.
2.
A place where medicines are compounded; a drug store; an apothecary’s shop.
Webster 1828 Edition
Pharmacy
PHAR'MACY
,Noun.
The art or practice of preparing, preserving and compounding substances, whether vegetable, mineral or animal, for the purposes of medicine; the occupation of an apothecary.