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The Times, September 24, 2018

An apothecary is or was a person, not a shop. This is like saying ‘a reproduction of a 19th century pharmacist’. There doesn’t seem to have been a word equivalent to ‘pharmacy’ so you would have to say ‘apothecary’s shop’.

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