- medical professional who formulates and dispenses materia medica for doctors, physicians, surgeons and patients - could also offer generalmedical advice - now given by specialists.
Often operated through a retail shop who would also offer in addition to pharmacy ingredients, tobacco and patent medicines
Originally members of the Grocers Company they separated in 1617 when they were granted a royal charter they became The Worshipful Society of Apothecaries - during the rest of the 17th c they challenged the monopoly of the Company of Physicians
Hans Sloane
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Founded Chelsea physic garden 1673 - Hans Sloane granted the society the use of the Manor of Chelsea - the garden became the largest collection of medicinal plants in Europe under the direction of Phillip Miller
The Society is based in BlackFriars - the present building completed in 1672 - included an
Elaboratory - for the first large scale maufacture of drugs
Major restoration in the 1780s
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