The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 268 No 7180 p15-21
5/12 January 2002

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Shakespeare's pharmacist?

From Mr B. R. Butler, MRPharmS

I enjoyed Ian MacKillop's article on pharmacists as heroes (PJ, 22/29 December 2001, p935) and agree that Brother Cadfael is "a type of doctor". However, Shakespeare's apothecary must have been a pharmacist!

Romeo says:

I do remember an apothecary, —

And hereabouts he dwells, — which  late I noted

In tatter'd weeds, with  overwhelming brows,

Culling of simples; meagre were  his looks,

Sharp misery had worn him to the  bones ...

Romeo and Juliet V; 1

Barry Butler
Exeter,
Devon

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