When i use a word... Medicines regulation - Apothecaries, quacks, chemists, druggists, pharmacists
Aronson JK.
Many terms have been used to describe individuals whose main job involves the preparation and dispensing of medicines. These include apothecaries, quacks, chemists and druggists, and pharmacists. The definitions and uses of these different terms have not always been clear, but they do throw light on the ways in which medicines were prepared and dispensed over the years, and by whom, since physicians first sought to exert power over the apothecaries.