[Apothecary Turned Builder]
Anon
Genre: | Anecdote, Drollery |
Subjects: | Medical Practitioners, Pharmaceuticals |
'A certain wealthy apothecary being engaged in some of the building speculations in Mary-le-bone, it was well observed of him, that he had run away from the pestle and was got into the mortar'. | |
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