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Pharicon Pharmaceia Pharmacist Pharmacon Pharmacopoeia Pharmacy Pharmacology
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

~ PHARICON   or gr PHARIKON
             id+ | POISON |
^u   note    gr PHARMAKOS
             id+ | CHARM  |  see> FARM
     note    Experts do not say so but
             FENCE FARM and PHARMACY seem
     in my opinion are likely to be
     related concepts as in
     gr  PHRASSEIN = TO FENCE or FORTIFY
     lat FARCIRE     TO ENLARGE  STUFF
     ukr FARNUTY     CHEAT or STEAL
     ukr FARSH       STUFFING
     lat FUNDUS      FARM
         VILLICUS    FARMER
         VILLICA     FARM WOMAN
         ply> | FARMERS LIKE TO FENCE AND OFTEN
                USE VILLAINOUS MEANS TO FATTEN
                THEIR FORTUNES to please their
                VILLICA |
~ PHARMACEIA    myth> A NYMPH PLAYMATE OF OREITHYIA
                      SHE LIVED IN A WELL OF
                      POISONOUS POWERS
                near the river ILLISIUS in Attica
~ PHARMACIST    lat MEDICAMENTARIUS or
                sug> APOTHECARY
~ PHARMACO~     prefix for PHARMACOLOGY related terms

                in sp MEDICAMENTO
     prefix to denote
     id+ | MEDICINE as in MEDICATION
           currently reduced to ideas of DRUG NARCOTICS or
                 CHEMICAL or PLANT AGENTS |
~ PHARMACON      gr  for PHARMACISTS  DRUGGIST or APOTHECARY
~ PHARMACOPEIA   or
~ PHARMACOPOEIA  gr POEIN = TO MAKE
                med> COMPILATION OF GI=UIDES CONCERNING
                     MEDICATIONS DRUGS AND THEIR
                PREPARATION AND USE
~ PHARMACOPOLA  same
~ PHARMACUS     hx> CHIEF ARTIST OR PROTAGONIST OF A VILLAINY
                    also THE PERSON CONDEMNED TO DEATH or
                WHOSE SACRIFICE REPRESENTED A PURIFICATION or
                ATONEMENT or THE ONE WHOSE DEATH COULD PURIFY
~ PHARMACY      lat ARS MEDICAMENTARIA
                A SOURCE OF MEDICAL MEDICAMENTS
                also APOTHECA APOTHECARY
~ PHARMACOLOGY  in sp FARMACOLOGIA
                gr    PHARMAKON = MEDICINE
  implies RELATIONSHIP OF DRUG or NARCOTIC
  and     MEDICINE or CURATIVE USE    sug> CURIA
  med> IMPLIES SCIENTIFIC STUDY AND USE OF DRUGS
       implies PROPER PREPARATION AND USE OF DRUGS
  note in ukr APTEKA = PHARMACY      sug> BOUTIQUE
  consider APOTHECARY                sug> ELIXIR
  ply> perhaps PHARMACOLOGY relates to FARCE or
               FARCICAL MAGIC POISONS
  
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