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Pharmacist

2 stages from Greek to English.

Today it means a person qualified to prepare and dispense medicinal drugs
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Stage 1 of 2
pharmakon
Greek · ancient
"a drug, a medicine"
a drug, a medicine, or a poison
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Stage 2 of 2
pharmacist
English · 1834
"a person trained to prepare and dispense medicine"
settled as the English word for one trained to prepare and dispense medicine
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