A kind person sent this email to me this weekend.

Thank you very much for taking the time!

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I came on your comments today re: pharmikeia and our modern drug culture called 'medicine" This may not be new info for you but wanted to pass along that in an old Webster's Dictionary (1905) the connection is made to "witchcraft". Yet in a 1933 Mirriam Webster's the distinction/ connection had already disappeared!

from Webster's Imperial Dictionary of the English Language - 1905-06

"phar-ma-ceuti' tic, phar-ma-ceu' tic-al, a. [Gr. pharmakeutikos, from pharmakeuein. to practice witchcraft, or use medicine; pharmakon, poison or medicine; Pertaining to the knowledge of art of pharmacy, ot to the art of preparing medicines in accordance with the formulae of pharmancy."