Apothecary
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
Any person who keeps a shop or building where medicines are couipounded or prepared according io prescriptions of physicians, or where medicines are sold. Act Cong, July 13, 1866, § 9; 14 St. at Large, 119, The term “druggist” properly means one whose eccupation is to buy and sell drugs without compounding or preparing them. The term therefore has a much more limited ani restricted meaning than the word “apothecary,” and there ia little difficulty in coneluding that the term “druggist” may be applied in a technical sense to persons who buy and sell drugs.
28 La, Ann, 767.