what ho, apothecary!

No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.

— Paracelsus

As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

An apothecary should never be out of spirits.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

“Spanish rain, A maiden’s dress, Apothecary pills And ancient thrills; Melancholy kills A girl’s caress. (—Roman Payne; Valencia, Spain, November 2nd 2012)”

— Roman Payne

Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange apothecary souls…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

For my second novel, The Apothecary's Daughter, my editor encouraged me to think of another unusual profession for a woman to have. That led…

— Julie Klassen

APOTHECARY, n. The physician's accomplice, undertaker's benefactor and grave worm's provider

— Ambrose Bierce

true apothecary thy drugs art quick

— William Shakespeare

If odours may worke satisfaction, they are so soveraigne in plants and so comfortable that no confection of the apothecaries can equall their excellent…

— John Gerard

“Spanish rain, A maiden’s dress, Apothecary pills And ancient thrills; Melancholy kills A girl’s caress.”

— Roman Payne

“Our medicines are not something you'll find at the drugstore, but at the bookshop, in the library, or downloaded onto your electronic reading device.…

— Ella Berthoud & Susan Elderkin

The Apothecaries morter spoiles the Luters musick.

— George Herbert

“The Apothecary was surprised. “You would give up everything you believed in?” “If it would save my daughters,” the parson said. “I’d give up…

— Patrick Ness

The longer I live, the more I am convinced that the apothecary is of more importance than Seneca; and that half the unhappiness in…

— Sydney Smith