Pharmacopoeias, Drug Regulation, and Empires: Making Medicines Official in Britain's Imperial World, 1618-1968 Volume 10

by Stuart Anderson

The word "pharmacopoeia" has come to have many meanings, although it is commonly understood to be a book describing approved compositions and standards for drugs. In 1813 the Royal College of Physicians of London considered a proposal to develop an imperial British pharmacopoeia - at a time when separate official pharmacopoeias existed for England, Scotland, and Ireland. A unified British pharmacopoeia was published in 1864, and by 1914 it was considered...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0228021049
• ISBN13: 9780228021049
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 354 Pages