Abstract
The influence of the Royal Society upon the apoth ecaries is an interesting, but unexplored, topic. Miss Syfret, discussing the relationship between the new philosophy and physic, recently remarked that the Royal Society ‘could be regarded as likely to support the empirics and apothecaries against that ultra-conservative body, the Royal College of Physicians, and to interfere with the wonted courses of physic’. An even more recent analysis by Dr Philip George of the papers published in the
Philosophical Transactions,
concludes that ‘the paucity of apothecaries amongst the authors suggests that few by profession had any developed interest in science . . . A very different state of affairs existed on the Continent’. This note offers some evidence for the contention that the apothecaries were influenced by, and in some cases associated with, the Royal Society: an association which undoubtedly energized their activities, and played some part in their attainment of professional status, which was marked by the famous
Rose Case
of 1703.
Subject
History and Philosophy of Science
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