16. A medicament-dispensing apparatus for filling a prescription for a medicament including a designated amount of the medicament, said apparatus comprising: a prescription database including prescription data corresponding to a prescription to be filled including the medicament thereof; a computer including means for accessing said prescription database for retrieving prescription data therefrom corresponding to the prescription to be filled; a printer coupled with said computer and operable to print a prescription label representative of the prescription; an indicia-reading device coupled with said computer and operable to read container indicia on a supply container of a medicament, said container data being representative of the medicament contained in the container, said device being operable to provide said container data to said computer, said computer including means for comparing said container data and said prescription data to determine a match therebetween and in response, prompting said printer to print the prescription label; and an attribute database including attribute data representative of at least one physical attribute of the medicament, said computer including means for accessing said attribute database and for retrieving attribute data therefrom corresponding to the prescription medicament and for activating said printer to print the prescription label with medicament indicia thereon representative of at least one physical attribute of the prescription medicament.
25. The apparatus of claim 16, further including means for manual entry of said container data.