"talk like an apothecary" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1824, Naso., Sneezing, in The New Monthly Magazine, volume X, page 152",
          "text": "As to Clement of Alexandria, I shall pass him by, as he knew nothing about the matter. He talks like an apothecary on the subject; and when did ever an apothecary talk to any purpose?"
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          "ref": "July, 1807, Omar and Fatima; or, the Apothecary of Ispahan, published in the Literary Magazine and American Register, volume VIII, number 46, page 6",
          "text": "\"And you have so little of the former left,\" said the old woman, as she presented him with a plate of the aliment and a glass of the menstruum, \"that without we have a fresh supply, I foresee that you will be reduced to live upon your own medicines.\"\n\"You do not talk like an apothecary,\" said Nadir, \"if you expect that I could exist upon them in the way you suggest.\""
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        "To prattle."
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        "(intransitive, idiomatic, obsolete, slang) To prattle."
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