Pharmacy. a department of the medical art which consists in the collecting, preparing, preserving, and dispensing of medicines. In Great Britain the practice of pharmacy is regulated by a series of Pharmacy Acts, of which the more important are those of 1852, 1868, 1869, and 1882. See ADULTERATION, CHEMISTS AND DRUGGISTS, MEDICINE, PHARMACOPŒIA, PRESCRIPTION.
Pharmacy.
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