Avignone Chemists was founded in 1832 which makes it the oldest apothecary in the United States.

There's also Tenzing Momo, one of the oldest apothecaries on the West Coast, where you can pick up herbal remedies, incense, oils and books.

In 1774, the Pharmacopoea Austriaco-provincialis used the new standard, and in 1783 all old apothecaries' weight pieces that were still in use were directed to be destroyed.

In practice the old apothecaries' system based on the troy pound was still widely used, however, until it was abolished by the Weights and Measures Act of 1976.

Like an old apothecary, La Botica dispenses its elixirs from squat bottles lined up on the shelf.

"Morgenes, the old apothecary, wants me to take on a couple of castle-mice and turn them into men."

There might still be a few lying about the old apothecary.

The old apothecary, whose humor was rough and ribald, had sometimes rallied Pierre concerning Mere Antoinette's preference for him.

C.O. Bigelow, which bills itself as the oldest apothecary in the United States, is rolling out new shops across the country.

Biba's second store in London, the Kensington Church Street boutique, looked like an old apothecary on the outside with the wooden window frames beautifully polished.