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I've been really into etymology since early clown era when I first learned that pharmaceutical comes from pharmakea, meaning sorcery, spell, magic, poison, potion, drug.

Somehow I never came across the word pharmakos, from which pharmakea and pharmaceutical derive.

pharmākos: a human scapegoat used in certain state rituals🤔

https://www.britannica.com/topic/pharmakos