Apothecary

noun

The physician's accomplice, undertaker's benefactor and grave worm's provider.

    When Jove sent blessings to all men that are,
    And Mercury conveyed them in a jar,
    That friend of tricksters introduced by stealth
    Disease for the apothecary's health,
    Whose gratitude impelled him to proclaim:
    "My deadliest drug shall bear my patron's name!"

        G.J.


—Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary