Druggist

Origin

From French droguiste, replaced earlier drugger. See drug.

Full definition of druggist

Noun

1. A manufacturer and vendor of drugs and medicines.
• 1777: Sir Lucius Cary (John Bell ed.), An Elegy on Dr. Donne (in Bell's Edition) http://books.google.com/books?vid=LCCN17023722&id=O7VxDbn1H44C&pg=PR91&lpg=PR91&dq=druggist+date:0-1800&as_brr=1No druggist of the soul bestow'd on all
  So catholicly a curing cordial.

Synonyms

• (medicine maker and seller): apothecary, chemist, pharmacist