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Active Ingredient
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Stuff I Looked Up
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“This is the ingredient in a medicine or treatment that is biologically active, meaning it has some interaction or effect on cells in the human body. Colloquially, it seems to mean ‘the thing in this medicine that actually does something,’ as opposed to other aspects of a medicine that are related…”

Apothecary
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December 23, 2021
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“This is an old name for what would be called a ‘pharmacist’ today. I’m not saying it was a pharmacist, because usage of the name stretches back thousands of years, and we wouldn’t call what they did back then ‘pharmacy.’ However, it filled the same basic role. Apothecaries prepared medicines, old…”