chymist

noun

1. (alt-of, obsolete)Obsolete spelling of chemist.

   “"Count, I have no physician, nor do I mean to have one. I paid more to those medical men at Brighton than is satisfactory to my conscience on reflection; but, as I took care of the prescription, I get my drugs from the chymists, and make them up at home."”

   “Chymists speak of imponderable substances, which is as impossible a conception as that of atoms.”