apotheke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apothekes
Etymology: From German Apotheke. Doublet of bodega and boutique.
Senses: examples: text: The other ſtructures are: the foundling-houſe, the grammar-ſchool, the poſt-office, the ſalt-magazine, the archives, the aſſignation-bank, the artillery-court, the printing-office of the ſenate, the chief apotheke, the mint, &c. […] The botanic or apothecary-garden, belonging to the imperial apotheke, is kept in an excellent ſtate. This apotheke is appointed to ſupply all the inferior apothekes of the lazarets of the empire with drugs and medicines.
ref: 1800, W[illiam] Tooke, “Sketch of Mosco”, in History of Russia, from the Foundation of the Monarchy by Rurik, to the Accession of Catharine the Second. […], volume II, London: […] A[ndrew] Strahan, […], for T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], pages 384 (chapter III) and 387 (chapter IV):
text: It should not be understood from this that infusions are less used in Germany and Switzerland than in England. The opposite is the case, and there are few apothekes in which infusions are not always on the hob. The Pharmocopœias give one general formula.—Ed. C. & D.
ref: 1895 March 30, The Chemist and Druggist, volume XLVI, number 780, London, page 446, column 2:
text: This pharmacy and the storerooms are large and commodious, and the drugs and chemicals are arranged in the methodical classified style familiar in German apothekes.
ref: 1899, The Pharmaceutical Era, volume 21, page 722, column 2:
text: There is a remarkable similarity in the appearance of all apothekes in all of Europe. I have seen them in Greece, Sicily, Italy, Austro-Hungary, Switzerland, all the German States, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Sweden and Norway, and equipment and arrangement is everywhere very similar.
ref: 1907, The Pharmaceutical Era, volume 37, page 131, column 1:
text: Several other important apothekes would have been worth a visit had time permitted, and among them I may enumerate: Drs. A. Becheraz, Armin Kaisers, Julius Thomann, and Ducommun, Messrs. K. Dant, F. Gaudard, Lengacher, A. Lindt, Otto Jaggis, A. Moser Kunchel, Fritz Pulver, Vikt. Scholler, Walter Steck, Ad. Vatter, and Haaf & Cie.
ref: 1910, Chemist and Druggist: The Newsweekly for Pharmacy, volume 77, page 174:
text: Thus the “Fighting League” was proclaimed by the party itself to be a purely private organization. Such a proclamation made an end of all “gleichschaltung” attempts, and resulted, at least temporarily, in saving Jewish apothekes and druggists from being deprived of their sources of income. […] While Jewish physicians who were not “front fighters” are no longer permitted to attend members of the various insurance companies’ sick leagues, and thus have found their practice almost destroyed because almost everybody in Germany is either insured or has the cost of his medical treatment defrayed by some one or another of the state’s welfare organizations, nevertheless Jewish apothekes are still permitted to cater to insurance companies and their clients.
ref: 1934, American Druggist, volume 89, page 72, column 1:
text: The economic status of the apotheke (pharmacy) is due for revision in the new state of Western Germany. In 1948 a United States military government measure directed the Germans in the U. S. Zone to end their age-old system of licensing businesses. It is now possible for any qualified pharmacist to establish an apotheke at any location, provided he fulfills the requirements as to inventory and dispensing facilities. The directive is in sharp contrast to the German concessionary system, under which each apotheke served an exclusive area. The West German apotheke association, which is drafting legislation proposals, recognizes an obligation to create more opportunity for the large number of refugee pharmacists who have fled the Soviet Zone. The apotheke at present serves an average of 10,000 to 12,000 inhabitants. The association feels this ratio could be cut to 7,000 inhabitants, and that the 4,000 apothekes in the U. S.-British Zones could be raised to 5,000.
ref: 1950, Pharmacy International, volume 4, page 39, column 1:
text: Baking soda and cream of tartar, available at apothekes, drug stores.
ref: 1990, Swiss Scene, IBO Verlag, page 70, column 3:
glosses: A European, especially German, pharmacy.