Even prescriptions are usually written in a language unintelligible to anybody but the druggist.
Now, a druggist doesn't pretend to know disease —he simply knows drugs.
Two years' joint savings had gone to pay the doctor and the druggist.
The discourse of elements and principles served a rhetorical function of securing for the chemists some superiority over common druggists.
Candidates could be licensed as physicians, surgeons, accoucheurs, apothecaries or chemists and druggists.
Private patients attended a doctor's surgery or paid for a home visit, or could purchase remedies over the counter or by mail order from druggists and fringe providers.