The word 'apothecary' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It refers to a health professional who prepares and dispenses medicinal drugs. You might use it in a sentence like: "The apothecary had a wide variety of herbs and potions for sale in his shop."
When he lost what little remained of his money at the gaming tables during a masquerade, he and apothecary William Plunket donned Venetian masks and held up a farmer on Hampstead Heath.
Visible from the courtyard is a collection of archival pigments, arrayed in glass jars like potions in an apothecary.
She was his apothecary or pharmacist.
Although briefly apprenticed to an apothecary, in 1816 Dumas traveled to Geneva where he studied pharmacy, chemistry, and botany.
In America, Benjamin Franklin took a pivotal step in keeping the two professions separate when he appointed an apothecary to the Pennsylvania Hospital.
He settled down permanently, only going to Stockholm to formally pass an apothecary exam and to take his place in the Royal Swedish Academy of Science in 1775.
Marggraf served as assistant (1735 38) to his father, the court apothecary at Berlin, and as director of the chemical laboratory of the German Academy of Sciences of Berlin (1754 60).
The Greek physician Galen (c. 130 c. 200 ad) included opium and squill among the drugs in his apothecary shop (pharmacy).
For a plant to have been included in the Chinese apothecary, each of its parts had to be identified for a different healing purpose.
He was born in Nīshāpūr, Iran, and was perhaps an apothecary, as his name ʿAṭṭār literally, "perfumer" or "apothecary"—implies.
After five happy years in Uppsala, Scheele moved to the small town of Köping to become an apothecary with his own business.
