Would you like to spend 1, 2 or 3 days exploring a broad range of aspects of pharmacy history?
Are you interested in visiting the Wellcome Library, Royal College of Physicians, Royal Pharmaceutical Society Museum and the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries?
Do you enjoy learning new topics with a mix of talks, discussions, collections sessions and tours?
From Monday 1st to Wednesday 3rd July, BSHP and the Faculty for the History & Philosophy of Medicine & Pharmacy are running a 3 day course exploring the history of pharmacy and and pharmaceutical industry. Sessions include the history of the laboratory, using prescription registers as historical sources, materia medica & the British empire, delftware drug jars, and the Apothecaries' manufacturing trade, with speakers including as Tilli Tansey, Pratik Chakrabati and Anna Marie Roos. Alongside lectures, there are collections-based sessions at all 3 venues and tours of the medicinal garden at the RCP and the museum at the RPS.
Full price 3 day attendance is £240, with student fees £140. You can also opt into single day attendance.
All details & booking form on the Apothecaries' website - www.apothecaries.org/history-of-pharmacy-and-the-pharmaceutical-industry-three-day-course/
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