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Q J Med 2002; 95: 261-262
© 2002 Association of Physicians

Coda

What's in a name?

John Launer

I handed a prescription to a patient last week and she asked me whether she should take it straight away ‘to the apothecary’. I thought at first that she was using the word apothecary as a joke, but she was not. At the age of 97, she was saying it without any self-consciousness—and presumably without any awareness that dictionaries have defined it as archaic for at least 50 years.

I wondered if I was witnessing the very last time that . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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