Nineteenth-Century British Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals

Stuart Anderson is emeritus professor in pharmacy history at the Centre for History in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. He is the author of Pharmacy and Professionalization in the British Empire, 1780-1970 (Palgrave McMillan, 2021), and his book Pharmacopoeias, Drug Regulation, and Empire: Making Medicines Official in Britain’s Imperial World, 1681-1968 will be published by McGill-Queen’s University Press in 2024. He was the editor of Making Medicines: A Brief History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals (Pharmaceutical Press, 2005) and is the editor of the international journal Pharmaceutical Historian. He is a past chair of the Society for the Social History of Medicine, a past president of the British Society for the History of Pharmacy and was president of the International Academy for the History of Pharmacy 2009 to 2017. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and the Royal Historical Society.

• Volume 2. Practice – From Proprietor to Company Chemist AcknowledgementsGeneral IntroductionIntroduction to Volume 2Part 1. The origin of company chemists 1. ‘Cooperative stores and the sale of poisons’, Chemist and Druggist (15 June 1878), pp. 270–1.2. ‘Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain v The London and Provincial Supply Association’ (Court Proceedings), Pharmaceutical Journal (24 July 1880), pp. 65–80.3. ‘Appeal Case in House of Lords’, Pharmaceutical Journal (24 July 1880), pp. 81–2.4. J. Attfield, ‘The future supply of drugs to the public: the relations of the state to pharmacy’, Pharmaceutical Journal (22 November 1883), pp. 228–36. 5. ‘Company pharmacy’, Chemist and Druggist (2 December 1893), p. 809.6. ‘Company pharmacy’, Chemist and Druggist (9 December 1893), p. 841.7. ‘Company pharmacy’, Chemist and Druggist (16 December 1893), p. 873.8. ‘Company pharmacy’, Chemist and Druggist (23 December 1893), pp. 894–5.9. ‘Company pharmacy’, Chemist and Druggist (23 December 1893), pp. 903–4.10. ‘Company chemists’, Chemist and Druggist (30 January 1897), pp. 163–4.Part 2. The drug trade 11. Medicines Duties Act12. J. Bell, ‘On competition in the drug trade’, Pharmaceutical Journal (1 March 1843), pp. 557–62. 13. J. Bell, ‘Competition in the drug trade’, Pharmaceutical Journal (1 September 1843), pp. 97–102.14. Select Committee on Medical Poor Relief Committee 1844, Paper No. 531 (1844),Selected extracts.15. ‘Penalties under the Stamp Duties Acts’, Pharmaceutical Journal (1 June 1846), pp. 532–5.16. ‘Early Closing’, Chemist and Druggist (15 September 1866), p. 157.17. W. Glyn–Jones, Anti–Cutting Record (November 1895), pp. 1, 3, 5.18. ‘Anti–cutting’, Chemist and Druggist (2 May 1896), p. 643.19. ‘Anti–cutting movement’, Chemist and Druggist (2 May 1896), pp. 629–30.20. ‘Anti–cutting’, Chemist and Druggist (23 May 1896), p. 748.21. ‘Anti–cutting’, Chemist and Druggist (20 November 1897), p. 808.22. ‘Proprietary Articles Trade Association’, Chemist and Druggist (25 June 1898), pp. 1015–7.23. ‘Drug trade in the Victorian Era’, Chemist and Druggist (26 June 1897), pp. 995–8.24. ‘P.A.T.A. and its Defence Fund’, Pharmaceutical Journal (25 November 1899), pp. 516–7. 25. ‘Pharmacy and the drug trade in 1899’, Chemist and Druggist (30 December 1899), pp. 1059–64.26. ‘Chemists’ Defence Association’, Pharmaceutical Journal (24 March 1900), p. 330.Part 3. Counter prescribing 27. ‘The law against counter practice’, Lancet (11 September 1841), pp. 868–69.28. ‘Counter practice’, Pharmaceutical Journal (1 December 1844), pp. 245–51.29. G. Dillon, ‘The Pharmacy Bill’, Lancet 1 (April 1852), pp. 482–3. 30. ‘Right of chemists and druggists to prescribe’, Pharmaceutical Journal (2 December 1861), pp. 297–8.31. ‘Confusion of medicine and pharmacy’, Pharmaceutical Journal (5 February 1876), pp. 627–8.32. ‘Prosecution under Apothecaries Act’, Pharmaceutical Journal (5 February 1876), p. 639. 33. ‘Limits of Counter Practice’, Chemist and Druggist (15 June 1878), pp. 269–70.34. ‘Prosecution under the Apothecaries Act’, Pharmaceutical Journal (9 November 1878), p. 361.35. ‘Sale of poisons by unqualified assistants of medical men’, Pharmaceutical Journal (1 November 1890), pp. 353–4. Part 4 – Pharmacy and dentistry 36. ‘The Dental Profession’, Pharmaceutical Journal (1 December 1856), pp. 301–3. 37. ‘Dentistry’, Chemist and Druggist (15 November 1870), pp. 325–6. 38. ‘Dental Practitioners Bill’, British Medical Journal 1 (2 March 1878), p. 307.39. An Act to amend the Law relating to Dental Practitioners (41 & 42 Vict. Chap. 33, 22 July 1878).40. ‘Foundation of Odontological Society and College of Dentists’, Historical Sketch (1880), p. 259. 41. ‘The supply of dentists’, Chemist and Druggist (15 April 1905), p. 585.42. ‘Dentists Bill’, Chemist and Druggist (23 July 1910), pp. 48–9.43. ‘Dental Bill’, Chemist and Druggist (30 July 1910), p. 210. 44. ‘Meeting of Chemist–extractors’, Chemist and Druggist (3 September 1910), p. 52.45. ‘Chemists’ Dental Society’, Chemist and Druggist (17 September 1910), pp. 45–6.Part 5. Pharmacy and optics 46. ‘Chemists and the spectacle trade’, Chemist and Druggist (15 July 1880), pp. 298–9.47. ‘Absurdities of Pharmacy Act’, Optician (15 March 1894), p. 240. 48. ‘Sale of chemical preparations’, Optician (30 August 1894), p. 190.49. ‘Opticians and medical profession’, Optician (14 February 1895), p. 307-8. 50. ‘Organising a British Optical Association’, Optician (14 March 1895), p. 365. 51. ‘Opticians as chemists’, Optician (10 October 1895), p. 312.52. ‘Opticians as chemists’, Pharmaceutical Journal (26 October 1895), p. 359. 53. ‘Opticians as chemists’, Optician (7 November 1895), pp. 82, 84, 86.54. ‘Optical classes’, Pharmaceutical Journal (1 May 1897), p. 379. 55. ‘Certification of opticians’, Pharmaceutical Journal (3 September 1898), pp. 275–7. 56. ‘First optical examination of the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers’, Pharmaceutical Journal (12 November 1898), p. 517. 57. The chemist–optician: A survey of the theory and practice of visual optics, especially with reference to sight–testing and spectacle fitting (London: Chemist and Druggist, 1908), pp. v–vii. Part 6. Veterinary and agricultural pharmacy 58. ‘Fragmenta Veterinaria’, Chemist and Druggist (15 February 1860), p. 110–11. 59. ‘Veterinary qualifications’, Chemist and Druggist (22 September 1888), pp. 408–9. 60. ‘Pharmacy at Royal Agricultural Show’, Chemist and Druggist (4 July 1896), pp. 14–16.61. Veterinary Counter Practice: A Treatise on the Diseases of animals and the most suitable remedies for them, third edition (London: Chemist and Druggist, 1900), preface.62. ‘Killing dogs and cats’, in Veterinary Counter Practice: A Treatise on the Diseases of animals and the most suitable remedies for them, third edition (London: Chemist and Druggist, 1900), pp. 13–15. 63. ‘The title veterinary chemist’, in Veterinary Counter Practice: A Treatise on the Diseases of animals and the most suitable remedies for them, third edition (London: Chemist and Druggist, 1900), pp. 331–2. 64. ‘Veterinary Notes’, Chemist and Druggist (27 January 1900), pp. 162–3. 65. ‘Killing dogs and cats’, Chemists’ and Druggists’ Diary (1900), p. 528. 66. ‘Veterinary counter’, Chemist and Druggist (28 April, 1900), p. 708. Part 7. Pharmacy and photography 67. ‘Improved developer for negatives’, Photographic Journal (15 July 1862), pp. 95–6.68. ‘Photography’, Chemist and Druggist (15 January 1870), pp. 14–15. 69. ‘Photography: Export trade’, Chemist and Druggist (14 April 1870), p. 108. 70. ‘Photography and chemist and druggist’, Chemist and Druggist (3 July 1886), pp. 8–10.71. ‘Photographic Notes’, Chemist and Druggist (27 July 1889), pp. 127–8. 72. ‘Photographic Notes: dark room’, Chemist and Druggist (28 December 1889), pp. 890–1.73.‘Photographic Notes’, Chemist and Druggist (26 July 1890), pp. 113–14. 74. ‘Photography and “the Chemist and Druggist”’, Chemist and Druggist (23 August 1890), p. 270.75. ‘Pharmaceutical Society and photographic chemists’, British Journal of Photography (8 November 1895), pp. 713–14. 76. ‘Pharmaceutical Society again’, British Journal of Photography (24 December 1897), p. 820.77. ‘Projected Poisons Act’, British Journal of Photography (8 April 1898), p. 211.78. ‘New Poisons Bill’, British Journal of Photography (8 July 1898), pp. 436–7.79. ‘RPS and professional photographers, British Journal of Photography (10 March 1899), pp. 158–9. 80. ‘The chemist as photographic dealer’, British Journal of Photography (17 March 1899), p. 171.81. ‘Flutter in Films’, Chemist and Druggist (16 March 1901), p. 444. 82. ‘Radiography’, Chemists and Druggists Diary (London, 1900), p. 528. Part 8. Local pharmaceutical organisations 83. ‘Meeting at Bristol’, Pharmaceutical Journal (1 August 1850), pp. 123–5.84. ‘Liverpool Chemists’ Association’, Pharmaceutical Journal (1 September 1852), pp. 58–9.85. ‘Birmingham Pharmaceutical Institution’, Pharmaceutical Journal (1 December 1853), pp. 274–7.86. ‘North British Branch of Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain’, Pharmaceutical Journal (1 November 1854), p. 209.87. ‘Manchester Chemists’ Conversational Society’, Pharmaceutical Journal (1 November 1854), pp. 211–12. 88. ‘Colchester Druggists’ Association’, Pharmaceutical Journal (1 August 1863), p. 58.89. ‘Pharmaceutical Society, Edinburgh’, Pharmaceutical Journal (1 May 1864), pp. 548–50.90. ‘Nottingham Chemists’ Association’, Pharmaceutical Journal (1 May 1864), p. 554.91. ‘Chemists Dinner, Cardiff’, Pharmaceutical Journal (1 October 1870), p. 269.92. ‘Norwich Chemists’ Assistants’ Association’, Pharmaceutical Journal (1 October 1870), p. 269.93. ‘Glasgow Chemists and Druggists Association’, Pharmaceutical Journal (24 January 1885), pp. 607–8.94. ‘Sheffield Pharmaceutical and Chemical Society’, Pharmaceutical Journal (24 January 1885), pp. 608–9.95. ‘Aberdeen Chemists’ Assistants and Apprentices’ Association’, Pharmaceutical Journal (17 January 1885), p. 589.96. ‘Edinburgh Chemists’ Assistants and Apprentices; Association’, Pharmaceutical Journal (17 January 1885), p. 589.Index