THE LONDON APOTHECARIES' COMPANY AND SCOTCH STUDENTS

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 Society of Apothecaries of London.

Apothecaries, Dispensers, Students and Nineteenth-century Pharmacy at St. George's Hospital, London.

THE nineteenth-century transition from apothecaries to dispensers in hospital pharmacy was not always so clear cut as that indicated in the general view of its occurrence, whereby the apothecary became resident medical officer, around the I 85os, and thus vacated a post to be filled from the ranks ofchemists and druggists. This article shows that at St. George's Hospital, the changeover formed ...

The Diploma in Genitourinary Medicine (London Society of Apothecaries).

Apprentices in Trouble: Some Problems in the Training of Surgeons and Apothecaries in Seventeenth Century London

Mayor's Court interrogatories and depositions in six disputes between apprentices and their surgeon and apothecary masters in London in 1654-1684 are reviewed. Evidence is presented to illustrate aspects of the operation of the apprentice system.