Prothero's

Prothero's is the licensed apothecary on Court Way in Oxford, kept by Lewis Prothero, who sells sleeping draughts to old scholars. His medicine chests are priced at fifteen shillings to a pound, but individual remedies come a third dearer than in London, since Oxford physicians expect prescriptions made up exactly. The city keeps no licensed preparer, so any bench-made preparation sold there ought to arrive with its paper.