Apothecary trade

Ibid. In the subsequent volume Gottling wrote that his pocketbook is mainly destined to seek out the defects of the apothecary trade, to make proposals for their improvement, and to banish them, Vorerinnerung, Almanach 1793. 

Revolution described how the culmination of these debates. .. transformed an apothecaries trade into a public science . ... 

Our book focuses on eighteenth-cenmry chemistry as the most authoritative science of materials at the time. We will smdy this early science of materials from a broad, comparative view that provides insight into the types of materials handled and studied in eighteenth-century European chemistry as well as the apothecary trade, metallurgy, and other closely related arts and crafts. What types of materials did eighteenth-century chemists study in their experiments, lectures, and textbooks Where did these materials come from How did chemists transform quotidian materials when they studied them as scientific objects How did chemical substances change in history ... 

In the eighteenth century the artisanal world of the apothecary trade was an enduring practical and institutional context for chemists experimental smdies and classification of plant materials. But chemists also presented other practically oriented classifications depending on their occupations and interests and the audience... 

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