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The botica that Doña Ana de Aponte had inherited from her parents, and had been in her family for more than twenty years, was closed by local authorities "with no other idea than the welfare of the public" in mind, and on the allegation that the boticario in charge did not have a proper license.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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In 1784, García Miranda was fined 50 pesos and forced to leave his uncle's botica.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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The source of her undoing, most likely, was her only competition in town: a botica owned by a surgeon, also in clear violation of the law.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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In addition, their specialized training — like that of surgeons, a four-year apprenticeship — gave them access to imported and local medicines, and, at least by law, the exclusive right to sell them to the public as the pharmacy, or botica, was the only establishment that was licensed to sell the public ready-made medicines or have a physician's prescription filled.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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First exposed to medicine while working at the botica of an uncle, García Miranda later enrolled and completed four years of training at the Escuela de Cirugía, although he never obtained a license from the Protomedicato.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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This last inspection sealed the case against Naveda; his botica was closed and he was promptly thrown into jail to await trial.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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Oyóse en esto [36-10] rumor en la calle, o, mejor dicho, a la puerta de la botica.
Novelas Cortas Pedro Antonio de Alarc��n 1862
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El mancebo [37-7] de la botica asomó por una puertecilla su cabeza
Novelas Cortas Pedro Antonio de Alarc��n 1862
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We visited the whole, from the refectory to the botica, and admired the extreme cleanness of everything, especially of the immense kitchen, which seems hallowed from the approach even of a particle of dust; this circumstance is partly accounted for by the fact that each nun has a servant, and some have two; for this is not one of the strictest orders.
Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country Frances Erskine Inglis 1843
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Desde hace 10 años tiene un disco centro donde vende CD's para todo público, anteriormente tenía una botica.
Kiva Loans 2010
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