A dealer in drugs; one whose business is to sell drugs and medicines. Instrict usage, this term is to be distinguished from “apothecary.” A druggist deals in theuncompounded medicinal substances; the business of an apothecary is to mix andcompound them. But in America the two words are used interchangeably , as the samepersons usually discharge both functions. State v. Holmes, 28 La. Ann. 767. 26 Am.Rep. 110; Hainline v. Com., 13 Bush (Ky.) 352; State v. Donaldson, 41 Minn. 74, 42 N. W. 781.
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