medicine shop
noun
(in Malaysia) a Chinese chemist's shop where traditional herbs are sold as well as modern drugs. It is not, however, a dispensary for prescribed medicines
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How to use medicine shop in a sentence
The bones are said to be used as medicine by the Chinese, and a quantity of them may be seen suspended in every medicine-shop.
The Mission to Siam, and Hu the Capital of Cochin China, in the Years 1821-2 | George Finlayson
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