The apothecaries are treated by Ramazzini in quite “friendly” and concise way; evoking hazardous substances at the base of the typical production of medicinal drugs, but nothing comparable to the crowded and very rich images of fires with which are described the workshops of the chemists-alchemists. Apothecaries, considered “cousins” of the physicians, are processed by quotations from classical and authoritative authors but this add little to the knowledge of the most frequent working conditions that take place in those workshops. Ramazzini is very interested to odours, as well as those smelly, that the scents of these working environments. Admirable is the advice to “hypersensitive” to go as often as is possible in the open and to use, in contrast to those unbearable, odours “more familiar”.