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Quotes About Apothecary

Rune compounds a tincture of opium, arrack, lemon, and sugar into an apothecary bottle and heads back.
~ Abraham Verghese
Labeled apothecary bottles filled with raw material oils lined the risers: flowers, resins, leaves, woods, mosses, spices, herbs, seeds, grains, roots, bark, and fruit. From the animal kingdom came fixatives: civet, musk, and ambergris. The absolutes, the resinoids, the essential oils.
~ Jan Moran
L'homme qui prépare les onguents et les médecines a pour nom apothicaire. Lorsque c'est une femme qui exerce cette activité, on l'appelle sorcière.
~ Ken Follett
Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination.
~ William Shakespeare
O true apothecary!Thy drugs are quick.
~ William Shakespeare
TR on using extramarital accusations against Wilson: "It won't work. You can't cast a man as Romeo who looks and acts like an apothecary's clerk.
~ David Pietrusza
The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist.
~ John Ruskin
The Son held up his hands. Luminescent, they seemed, as if dappled by autumn sun reflecting off a stream into shade. "My grace flows from these as a river, wolf-lord. Would you have me dole it out in the exact measure that men earn, as from an apothecary's dropper? Would you stand in pure water to your waist, and administer it by the scant spoon to men dying of thirst on a parched shore?
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
It was in this room and at the apothecary Glazer's that Sainte-Croix made his experiments; but in accordance with poetical justice, the manipulation of the poisons proved fatal to the workers themselves. The apothecary fell ill and died; Martin was attacked by fearful sickness, which brought, him to death's door. Sainte-Croix was unwell, and could not even go out, though he did not know what was the matter.
~ Alexandre Dumas
the human body is its own best apothecary and because the most successful prescriptions are filled by the body itself.
~ Joe Dispenza
When I have supped too heavily of an evening, I drink in the morning a large number of cups of coffee, and that as hot as I can drink it, so that the sweat breaks out on me, and if by so doing I can't restore my body, a whole apothecary's shop couldn't do much, and that is the only thing I have done for years when I have felt a fever.
~ Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Spanish rain, A maiden's dress, Apothecary pills And ancient thrills; Melancholy kills A girl's caress.
~ Roman Payne
The guinea fee, the principle of giving advice and of selling no medicine, the great resolve to keep a distinct barrier between the physician and the apothecary, and, above all, the hatred of the contamination of a bill, were strong in the medical mind of Barsetshire.
~ Anthony Trollope
The only thing I regret about age are the wrinkles. But I have high hopes for this new almond cream! Do you know, that Italian apothecary promises the cream will make one's skin as soft as a baby's cheek? Once your child arrives, we'll have a viable comparison. Not having seen a baby in years, how would I know what its skin looks like?" "I'm glad my condition will prove to be of use," Esme said rather tartly.
~ Eloisa James
The fossils were sublime, but I found as much fascination in the odd paraphernalia of culture that, for various reasons, end up in museum drawers. Late eighteenth century apothecary boxes, thread cases from the mills of Lawrence, Victorian cigar boxes of gaudy Cuban design - all the better to house fossils.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
Stevie had often wondered how these conversations worked, when people talked about feelings and touching and all of the stuff she thought was meant to be kept carefully bottled inside her own personal apothecary. Now someone wanted in, to take the lids off the vials, to peer at the contents. Stevie was unaware that people were even allowed to talk about emotions this frankly. This was not how things happened at home.
~ Maureen Johnson
when people talked about feelings and touching and all of the stuff she thought was meant to be kept carefully bottled inside her own personal apothecary.
~ Maureen Johnson
All we had was Simon Finch, a fur-trapping apothecary from Cornwall whose piety was exceeded only by his stinginess.
~ Harper Lee
This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
~ Paracelsus
Eighteenth-century doctors prescribed sugar pills for nearly everything: heart problems, headache, consumption, labor pains, insanity, old age, and blindness. Hence, the French expression 'like an apothecary without sugar' meant someone in an utterly hopeless situation.
~ Tom Reiss
true apothecary thy drugs art quick
~ William Shakespeare
what ho, apothecary!
~ William Shakespeare
O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die
~ William Shakespeare
Do you happen to know when the apothecary will be arriving? We have an injured brother and are in need of herbs to reduce his fever. You're the one who'll need the apothecary! I have already said that I need the apothecary. Shall I speak more slowly?
~ David Gemmell