apothecary vs mountebank

apothecary

noun
  • Synonym of pharmacy: an apothecary's shop, a drugstore. 

  • A glass jar of the sort once used for storing medicine. 

mountebank

noun
  • One who sells dubious medicines. 

  • Any boastful, false pretender. 

  • One who sells by deception; a con artist. 

verb
  • To act as a mountebank. 

  • To cheat by boasting and false pretenses. 

How often have the words apothecary and mountebank occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )