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The Old Corner Bookstore is a historic commercial building located at 283 Washington Street at the corner of School Street in the historic core of Boston, Massachusetts.It was built in 1718 as a residence and apothecary shop, and first became a bookstore in 1828.
C. O. Bigelow Apothecaries is an American pharmacy and beauty brand founded in 1838 by Dr. Galen Hunter as The Village Apothecary Shop in Greenwich Village, New York.. Currently owned and operated by Ian Ginsberg, C. O. Bigelow is the oldest surviving apothecary–pharmacy in the United St
The Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary Shop/Museum is a historic apothecary's shop in Alexandria, Virginia, that has been preserved as a museum. During its working life, it was owned by generations of a Quaker family. [ 3 ]
Apothecary General was a British and American military post held during the times of the American Revolution. The appointment of Apothecary General in the British (or English) Army dated from 1686; it lapsed in 1826, by which time it was little more than an honorary title.
In Baghdad the first pharmacies, or drug stores, were established in 754, [11] under the Abbasid Caliphate during the Islamic Golden Age. By the ninth century, these pharmacies were state-regulated. [12] Roman herbal medicine guidebook De Materia Medica of Dioscorides. Cumin & dill. c. 1334.
Apothecaries' Hall Great Hall interior. Apothecaries Hall is a scheduled monument at Black Friars Lane, London. [1] It is the headquarters of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London, one of the livery companies of the City of London.
Apothecary (/ ə ˈ p ɒ θ ə k ər i /) is an archaic English term for a medical professional who formulates and dispenses materia medica (medicine) to physicians, surgeons and patients. The modern terms 'pharmacist' and 'chemist' (British English) have taken over this role.
A buttery was originally a large cellar room under a monastery, in which food and drink were stored for the provisioning of strangers and passing guests. Nathan Bailey's An Universal Etymological English Dictionary gives "CELLARIST – one who keeps a Cella, or Buttery; the Butler in a religious House or Monastery."