subs. (common).—An apothecary.

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  1785.  GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v.

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  1836.  M. SCOTT, Tom Cringle’s Log, ch. xiv. In truth, sir, I thought our surgeon would be of more use than any outlandish GALLIPOT that you could carry back.

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  1848.  THACKERAY, The Book of Snobs, ch. xxvii. ‘Half a-dozen little GALLIPOTS,’ interposed Miss Wirt.

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  ENGLISH SYNONYMS.—Bolus; bum-tender; clyster-giver; clyster-pipe; croaker; crocus; drugs; Ollapod (from a creation of the Younger Coleman’s); gagemonger; Galen (from the great physician); jakes-provider; pillbox; pill-merchant; pills; squirt; salts-and-senna; squire of the pot.

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  FRENCH SYNONYMS.—Un mirancu (obsolete: a play on mire en cul, respecting which cf., Béralde, in Molière, Malade Imaginaire: ‘On voit bien que vous n’avez pas accoutumé de parler à des visages’); un limonadier de postérieurs (popular: cf., ‘bum-tender’; un flûtencul (common); un insinuant (popular: one who ‘insinuates’ the clyster-pipe).

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  GERMAN SYNONYMS.—Rokeach, Raukeach, or Raukack (from the Hebrew).

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