Coordinates: 44°22′35.94″N 73°13′52.62″W / 44.3766500°N 73.2312833°W / 44.3766500; -73.2312833 The Apothecary Shop is a building at the Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont that exhibits objects salvaged from New England pharmacies that were closing in the early decades of the 20th century. The main room contains dried herbs, spices, drugs, and labeled glass apothecary bottles from the nineteenth century, as well as early patent medicines, medical equipment, cosmetics, and a collection of barbers’ razors. The compounding room, with its brick hearth, copper distilleries, and percolators replicates an illustration found in Edward Parrish’s 1871 Treatise on Pharmacy.
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