Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. an apothecary.

[1700		T. Brown Amusements Serious and Comical in Works (1744) III 13: A bookseller turn’d quack, with his elixirs and gallipots ready to poison old Galen].
1761		Nancy Dawson’s Jests 27: The doctor is no sooner gone, / But gallipot sends in; / A load of pills to cure all ills, / And jigs you once again.
1776		G. Colman Spleen II i: Ha! old gallipot!
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1793		Prince Hoare Prize I ii: Never more will I look on a gallipot—you shall never more know me to have been an apothecary.
1800		‘Lads of the Ocean’ in Jovial Songster 80: What matters your ditties, your jokes, and narrations / Of lawyers, and doctors still making your game, / With your gallipots, parchments, and clients, and patients.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1833		M. Scott Tom Cringle’s Log (1862) 329: In truth, sir, I thought our surgeon would be of more use than any outlandish gallipot that you could carry back.
1841		W.J. Neale Paul Periwinkle 184: Now, you little gallipot.
1864, 1867, 1870		Hotten Sl. Dict.
1895		Crowe Aus. Sl. Dict. 31: Gallipot, a chemist shop.

2. attrib. use of sense 1.

1861

Trollope Framley Parsonage (1866) 415: I cannot understand how a gentleman like Sowerby can like to see his property go into the hands of a gallipot wench whose money still smells of bad drugs.