druggists

noun

plural of druggist
as in pharmacists
a person who prepares drugs according to a doctor's prescription she got her prescription for antibiotics filled by the druggist

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pharmacists
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  • Alongside her scientifically credible poisoning scenarios, numerous doctors and pharmacists appear in Christie’s novels — sometimes as victims, other times as murderers — showing how her early brushes with the world of medicine never left her mind.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2026
  • The new policy allows some licensed pharmacists to produce compounds made up of multiple peptides—provided that those peptides are made by registered manufacturers.
    — Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 28 Oct. 2026
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