• then_three_more@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Apothecary might be better.

    To be honest you might get away with moving the term chemistry forward a couple of decades

    Beginning around 1720, a rigid distinction began to be drawn for the first time between “alchemy” and “chemistry”.[104][105] By the 1740s, “alchemy” was now restricted to the realm of gold making, leading to the popular belief that alchemists were charlatans, and the tradition itself nothing more than a fraud.[102][105]

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy