apotheke

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noun

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A Greek storeroom or warehouse.

The absence of earrings from the pre-Persian apothekes and the fact that only one was found on the South Hill indicate that earrings were infrequently used in archaic times at Olynthus.

Three hitherto unknown figures and other fragments from the Nike Balustrade found in the apothekes of the Museum are being published by I. Meliades.

noun

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A European, especially German, pharmacy.

The other ſtructures are: the foundling-houſe, the grammar-ſchool, the poſt-office, the ſalt-magazine, the archives, the aſſignation-bank, the artillery-court, the printing-office of the ſenate, the chief apotheke, the mint, &c. […] The botanic or apothecary-garden, belonging to the imperial apotheke, is kept in an excellent ſtate. This apotheke is appointed to ſupply all the inferior apothekes of the lazarets of the empire with drugs and medicines.

It should not be understood from this that infusions are less used in Germany and Switzerland than in England. The opposite is the case, and there are few apothekes in which infusions are not always on the hob. The Pharmocopœias give one general formula.—Ed. C. & D.

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