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What does the word pharmacy mean?

The practice of compounding and dispensing medicinal preparations.
The art which teaches the knowledge, choice, preservation, preparation, and combination of medicines. It was formerly divided into Galenical and Chymical. The former, called after Galen, embraced the operations undertaken on medicines without chymistry: - the latter, Chymical Pharmacy or Pharmaceutic Chymistry, Pharmacochymia, comprised the preparation of medicines, founded on the chymical action of their principles.

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According to an analysis made recently in the School of Pharmacy at Paris, the Water- cress contains a sulpho- nitrogenous oil, iodine, iron, phosphates, potash, certain other earthy salts, a bitter extract, and water. – Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie

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What does the word pharmacy mean?

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