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Example sentences for "apothecaries"

Lexicographically close words:
apostrophises; apostrophising; apostrophized; apostrophizes; apostrophizing; apothecary; apothecia; apothecium; apothegm; apothegms
  1. Some who are wretchedly disposed, and yet long to be more vicious than they are, go to physicians and apothecaries and enquire what things may serve them to make them more lusty to their foul fleshly delight.

  2. For unless we take this way with them, they shall not fail to do as many bold blind apothecaries do who, either for lucre or out of a foolish pride, give sick folk medicines of their own devising.

  3. According to your Lordship's directions, I have discharged the two Government Apothecaries and shall discharge some of the Surgeons' Mates that may be spared.

  4. To these he succinctly replies, "How many surgianes and apothecaries are there in England which can understand Plini in Latin or Galen and Dioscorides?

  5. Plants about London as have been observed in the several Monthly Herborizings made for the Use of the young Apothecaries and others, Students in the Science of Botany or Knowledge of Plants.

  6. If odours may worke satisfaction," wrote Gerard in his Herball, "they are so soveraigne in plants and so comfortable that no confection of the apothecaries can equall their excellent vertue.

  7. A considerable number of chirurgeons and apothecaries are said (by Defoe) to have fallen victims.

  8. Protestant apothecaries must shut up their shops.

  9. In queen Elizabeth's time the apothecaries did sell sack in their shoppes: my grandfather[1309] and severall old men that I knew heretofore did remember it.

  10. Full readie had he his apothecaries To send him drugg and electuaries.

  11. It makes you vomit without any paine, and besides, the vomits of apothecaries have aliquid veneni in them.

  12. The Woods are their Apothecaries Shops, where with Herbs, Leaves, and the Rinds of Trees they make all their Physic and Plaisters, with which sometimes they will do notable Cures.

  13. The Tree hath a pretty Physical smell like an Apothecaries Shop, but no sort of Cattle will eat it.

  14. The pamphlet contains some interesting remarks on the physicians, apothecaries and hospitals of the time.

  15. Now, you know, all men tremble in England at the threats of a trades-union; so the apothecaries instantly cudgeled their brains to find a way to disobey the law, and obey the union.

  16. On the 16th of November he purchased an ounce of tartar emetic, and upon the 7th of February another ounce of the same poison—very unusual quantities, as the apothecaries state.

  17. What will become of London if all her apothecaries desert her at this rate?

  18. The term was also used colloquially to refer to apothecaries themselves and even physicians (Trollope so uses the term in later chapters).

  19. And thus was his dreame, This gentleman Master Flaminio Tomarozzo, thought he was sitting in a very riche Apothecaries shop, a neere neighbour of his.

  20. Is it possible that you should always be so infatuated with your apothecaries and doctors, and be so determined to be ill, in spite of men and nature?

  21. It was now expected that the apothecaries would have undertaken the care of providing medicines; but they took another course.

  22. The physicians procured some apothecaries to undertake the dispensation, and offered that the warden and company of the apothecaries should adjust the price.

  23. This offer was rejected; and the apothecaries who had engaged to assist the charity were considered as traitors to the company, threatened with the imposition of troublesome offices, and deterred from the performance of their engagements.

  24. Below this was a charnel vault where some of the apothecaries had been ground down and stuffed into earthenware pots with Album graecum, dung, and many a stale ointment.

  25. When he went up for examination before the Court of Apothecaries he passed with ease and credit, somewhat to the surprise of his fellow students, who put his success down to his knowledge of Latin rather than of medicine.

  26. A Glass of good Ale or Wine now and then, or a Dram of cool Nantz, is more chearing to my old Spirits, than to be sipping and tasting a little Stale Pearl Cordial or Juleps, or indeed any Apothecaries Slop.

  27. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries mummies formed one of the ordinary drugs found in Apothecaries shops, and as considerable sums were expended in its purchase as had been laid out upon the besoards of various rare animals.

  28. He is inspector-general of the apothecaries for the kingdom of Hanover.

  29. In Sweden all the apothecaries are under the control of the Medical College, and no one can open a shop without undergoing an examination and receiving licence from that learned body.

  30. The corporation of apothecaries having obtained the general suppression of all such charges, M.

  31. Such as do but only sleep under the shadow thereof become sick, and sometimes they die;" and, "the extract of yew is used by ignorant apothecaries to the great peril and danger of the poor diseased people.

  32. Officinally apothecaries mix the pulp with senna as an aperient confection.

  33. When Norwood, in Surrey, was really a forest the Mistletoe grew there on the oak, and, being held as medicinal, it was abstracted for apothecaries in London.

  34. The London Society of Apothecaries has directed that the unripe fruit of the Walnut should be used pharmaceutically on account of its worm-destroying virtues.

  35. Apothecaries employ this conserve in the preparing of electuaries, and as a basis for pills.

  36. A dispute also arose as to the amounts to be paid by the Apothecaries and the Grocers respectively, the former having recently severed themselves from the latter and become incorporated as a separate company.

  37. The Barber-Surgeons and the Apothecaries had already done so; so had the Clothworkers, the Mercers and the Glovers.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "apothecaries" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.