THE APOTHECARIES' COMPANY.

The Royal Apothecaries

there are already good studies ofparticular crises like that of 1557-1559,21 ofparticular regions like the West Riding,23 the Vale of Trent,", the Lake District" and the area around Bromsgrove47 which can all be used as a basis for further work. These studies incidentally all serve to show that Creighton's descriptions based on mainly literary evidence are not very useful for plotting the cours...

London's immigrant apothecaries, 1600-1800.

Tim topics chosen by former Monckton Copeman lecturers on the relations between the City of London and Medicine have been wide and varied. The present subject is the apothecaries who came to this country and especially to London, many of them as refugees, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and their place in pharmacy. Long before the massacre of St. Bartholomew in 1572, refugees f...

The worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London.

The Society of Apothecaries is both a City livery company and an examining authority for the medical profession. Founded in 1617 by the royal apothecary Gideon de Laune leading a breakaway group from the Grocers' Company, the Society was instrumental in raising the status of apothecaries as general practitioners. Under the Apothecaries' Act (1815) the Society examined for the LSA and it now awa...

The Apothecaries' Act, 1815: a Reinterpretation1

THE story of the passing of the Apothecaries' Act is an essential prelude to an assessment of the significance of that statute. The agitation for an act to regulate medical practice in the United Kingdom, and in particular to control the practice of apothecaries throughout England and Wales, began as early as 1793. From that time until 12 July 1815, when the Apothecaries' Act received the Royal...

The Society of Apothecaries of London.