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Drug Dry
Engraved before 1811 from an original in the then Museum Pio Clemens in Rome (Click for details)
Esculapius (Medicine) between Mercury (Merchants) and the Graces (Medicine, Hygiene and Panacea)
Esculapius dealt with Patients - Merchants make deals with Clients

~ DRUG  id+ | CHEMICAL |         sug> REMEDY
        see> PHARMACOLOGY        see> MEDICINE
        etymology probably from  see> DRY
~ DRY   id+ | opp of MOIST |
        ply> | DRUGS are DRY |
  med> MEDICINES or REMEDIES or MEDICATIONS
       WERE MADE FROM DRIED PLANT PRODUCTS
  old Norse   DRAUGR = DRY WOOD
  old Dutch   DROGE    same
  old English DROGEN   same
              DRYGE    TO DRY
  old French  DROGUE   DRUG
  hx> CHEMICAL AGENTS WERE KEPT IN BARRELS
      WHICH ARE MADE FROM WOOD AND USED
  AS A WAY TO PREVENT DECAY OF
  CHEMICALS BY MOISTURE
  med> OFTEN DRUGS WERE EXTRACTED BY
       DEHYDRATING PLANT "JUICES" or  sug> ELIXIR
  HEATING MINERALS TO MELT  or        sug> AMALAGAM
  EXTRACT INGREDIENTS or DRUGS        sug> DISTILL
  DRUG STORE and                      sug> COMPOUND
  DRUGGIST became English equivalents of
  see> APOTHECARY  see> PHARMACY 
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