APOTHECARIES' COMPANY, DUBLIN.

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 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...

Dublin , Dublin , Ireland

Walker and Nussey--Royal Apothecaries, 1784-1860.

INTRODUCTION ATrENTION has recently been drawn to the fact that the partnership begun before 1750 by John Truesdale and Joseph Partridge provided Royal Apothecaries for the unusually long period of 152 years, the last partner in the firm to hold a royal appointment being Sir Francis Laking, who died in 1914.1 It is perhaps also worthy of note that for half of this period the firm was very much ...

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...