the retail trade of spices and drugs to the care of their servants ("Apothekerknechte"). One of these, Hans Minner, was to become the most important pharmacist of the German Middle Ages. Others became partners of their masters, e.g. Caspar Schneberger (c. 1495), who probably was the first apothecary to specialize exclusively in medical pharmaceutics. As retail traders in Zurich, "apothecaries" ...