Friday, May 29, 2009

A Knight of the Pestle

An apothecary's assistant who prepares medicine, grinding raw ingredients with a mortar and pestle.

"It is hard to get anything of them that is right pure and good of itself, but druggie baggage, and such counterfeit stuff as is stark naught."

Philip Stubbes, The anatomie of abuses (1583)

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