What's the difference between apothecary and drugstore?

Apothecary


Definition:

  • (n.) One who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purposes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His attorneys allege that the department contracts with the Apothecary Shoppe to provide the drug set to be used in Taylor’s 26 February lethal injection.
  • (2) Obstetrics was held in contempt by professionally educated and registered physicians and apothecaries, however, because of the immodesty and messiness of the work and the long hours involved.
  • (3) The Oklahoma-based compounding pharmacy Apothecary Shoppe agreed last week that it would not supply the pentobarbital for Taylor’s execution, which left Missouri to find a new supplier.
  • (4) In an attempt to upgrade the position, an apothecary from England, with training in chemistry, was hired in 1768.
  • (5) The plot of Emma turns on Frank Churchill's "blunder" in mentioning the likelihood of Mr Perry, the local apothecary, "setting up his carriage".
  • (6) Sketches from the lives of five surgeons (Bonnerme, Giffard, Goupil, Bouchard and Sarrazin), an apothecary (Hébert) and a physician; (Gaultier), are presented to highlight various facets of medical care and the leadership role played by medical practitioners in the development of Canada during that period.
  • (7) Rubenstein said that though it was uncertain how far Louisiana had gone in its dealings with the Apothecary Shoppe, the rules against cross-state distribution of controlled substances without a license were clear.
  • (8) The Apothecary Shoppe of Tulsa will not prepare or provide pentobarbital or any other drug for use in Michael Taylor’s execution, the papers say.
  • (9) Local newspapers revealed that Louisiana has also tried to procure compounded pentobarbital from the Apothecary Shoppe, despite the fact that the pharmacy is not licensed in Louisiana and is therefore not lawfully allowed to distribute in the state.
  • (10) The Apothecary Shoppe has not acknowledged that it supplies a compounded version of pentobarbital to Missouri for use in lethal injections, as Taylor says, and says it can’t because of a Missouri law requiring the identities of those on the state’s execution team to be kept confidential.
  • (11) Last week, the Oklahoma-based Apothecary Shoppe agreed that it would not supply the pentobarbital for Taylor’s execution.
  • (12) Lateral thinking was needed to decipher old signs: Adam and Eve meant a fruiterer; a bugle’s horn, a post office; a unicorn, an apothecary’s; a spotted cat, a perfumer’s (since civet, a fashionable musky perfume, was scraped from the anal glands of African civet cats).
  • (13) As a youth he was an apothecary's apprentice, surrendering his indentures at the age of 18 and entering medical school at the London Hospital.
  • (14) The interior may tick too many modern, bar-design cliches (retro peg-board menu; exposed brick and distressed plasterwork; towering Victorian apothecary-style back bar), but there is no doubting the quality of the beer, nor the sincerity of the staff.
  • (15) Hellman declined to say whether the Apothecary Shoppe sold compounded pentobarbital to states other than Missouri.
  • (16) We have studied publicly available documents – information that any citizen can obtain – and concluded that the Apothecary Shoppe was the source,” Pilate told the Guardian.
  • (17) Mayor's Court interrogatories and depositions in six disputes between apprentices and their surgeon and apothecary masters in London in 1654-1684 are reviewed.
  • (18) The practice of midwifery by men began in the early 17th century in Britain, but attendance at normal labors by medical practitioners, that is, surgeon-apothecaries, did not become common, and then only in urban areas, until 1730.
  • (19) Arch-hypochondriac Mr Woodhouse replies "rather warmly", deeply offended at the suggestion that his apothecary relishes minor ailments: "Mr Perry is extremely concerned when any of us are ill." Yet he is getting a carriage because he has battened on the hypochondriacs of Regency England.
  • (20) In Berne, various decisions were taken early to regulate relations between doctors and apothecaries with a view to protecting public health.

Drugstore


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The average cost per test was 116.4 FF when bought individually in drugstores or pharmacies.
  • (2) Other funding comes from individual donors, member associations affiliated with TPA, chain drugstores, wholesalers, and the Texas State Board of Pharmacy.
  • (3) It was also reported this weekend that the US drugstore chain Walgreens is reportedly preparing to take full control of Britain's biggest chemist, Alliance Boots , in a £10.5bn deal.
  • (4) Ben has written a few novels (with excellent fake-real names, like Air Dance), but they weren't exactly to small-town tastes: "Miss Coogan at the drugstore says that [Billy Said Keep Going] is pretty racy," Susan tells Ben early in the book; while another character remembers being perturbed when reading a homosexual rape scene in Conway's Daughter.
  • (5) The supplements were usually self-prescribed and purchased in a drugstore.
  • (6) And it wasn’t until the Baltimore youth burned down the CVS [drugstore] that anyone ever cared.
  • (7) I doubt they’ve made their wives or girlfriends a hot water bottle, or changed her bloody sheets, or volunteered to go down to the drugstore to buy her maxi pads when she’s doubled up in pain and cursing her ovaries.
  • (8) Instead, the administration hoped that the uncertainty created by the threat of political interference might be enough to deter such deals for the time being, as had happened earlier this month when the Walgreens drugstore chain dropped its plan to move its headquarters to Europe as part of its takeover of Alliance Boots .
  • (9) Gordon noticed that "she began to buy paperbacks on psychology at a local drugstore.
  • (10) Data on the use of these NCEs were obtained through the U.S. Pharmaceutical Market--Drugstores and Hospitals and the National Prescription Audit.
  • (11) The job of grown-up moviegoers is to establish their own moral relationship to the material, something I first learned when GoodFellas opened in London alongside Drugstore Cowboy and Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer, a troika entirely bereft of moral hand-holding or finger-wagging.
  • (12) The study was carried out in Guatemala by means of a direct interview of 427 employees of an equal number of drugstores, that were representative of the total drugstores in the country.
  • (13) Free 20 Fair Oaks Pharmacy and Soda Fountain, South Pasadena, Los Angeles, California A nostalgic corner drugstore where soda jerks have been pouring floats, phosphates, egg creams and lime rickeys since 1915.
  • (14) A pilot program would be implemented over 12 months at three drugstores of a major retail chain.
  • (15) An employee at the White Pagoda drugstore added: "People didn't come here to buy one or two, but ordered a lot for their friends and family, and companies came here to buy for their staff, too. "
  • (16) Few drugstores have records today of the prescriptions which they filled 20 years ago.
  • (17) Companies like Walgreen’s run the risk of being seen as unpatriotic.” Just two years ago, the Illinois-based drugstore company sought and received tax breaks from the state government, and now it’s ready to leave.
  • (18) Sixteen major therapeutic classes accounted for about 80% of drugstore and hospital expenditures for ethical pharmaceuticals.
  • (19) Chelsea Drugstore As seen in… A Clockwork Orange In Stanley Kubrick's controversial 1971 adaptation of Anthony Burgess's novella, delinquent droog leader Alex DeLarge (Malcolm McDowell) swaggers into this King's Road "disc-boutique", chats up two lollipop-sucking girls and takes them home for "the old in-out".
  • (20) In addition, during June 1976 price surveys were conducted in several large supermarkets, small grocery stores, and drugstores in the Boston area to furnish information on local price differentials.