35: pharmacy Jan 12, 2015

Happy national pharmacist day (also national clean off you desk day, but we don't need to pay attention to that). Today's word is 'pharmacy'. It comes late Middle English (denoting the administration of drugs): from Old French 'farmacie', via medieval Latin from Greek 'pharmakeia' meaning "practice of the druggist," based on 'pharmakon' meaning ‘drug'. This word entered English centuries after the first pharmacies in the Islamic world, the first being founded in Baghdad in 754ce.