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- Apothecary
- n. The physician’s accomplice, undertaker’s benefactor and grave worm’s provider.
- When Jove sent blessings to all men that are, And Mercury conveyed them in a jar, That friend of tricksters introduced by stealth Disease for the apothecary’s health, Whose gratitude impelled him to proclaim: “My deadliest drug shall bear my patron’s name!”
- G.J.