The nice woman at the apothecary tells me it is two weeks to Ramadan.

And thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the art of the apothecary, tempered together, pure and holy

And he made the holy anointing oil, and the pure incense of sweet spices, according to the work of the apothecary.

And thou shalt make it an oil of holy ointment, an ointment compound after the art of the apothecary it shall be an holy anointing oil.

Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honour.

This Dutch paleontologist had found (in 1933) a tooth in a Chinese apothecary shop in 1934 that he believed belonged to a giant tall ape that lived around half a million years ago.