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Apothecaries' Hall Great Hall interior. Apothecaries Hall is a scheduled monument at Black Friars Lane, London. [1] It is the headquarters of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London, one of the livery companies of the City of London. It is one of the largest livery companies (with over 1,600 members in 2012) and ranks 58th in their ...
Apothecaries' Hall courtyard, 1831 Laboratory of the Society, 1922 Interior of Apothecaries' Hall, 2013. The Society is based at Apothecaries' Hall in Blackfriars, London. The building, originally part of the Dominican priory of Black Friars, was called Cobham House prior to its purchase by the society in 1632.
Apothecaries Hall may mean: Apothecaries' Hall, London, home of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries, in Blackfriars, London, England; Apothecaries' Hall of Ireland, an association of medical practitioners; Apothecaries Hall (Prince Edward Island), on the list of National Historic Sites of Canada in Prince Edward Island
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Early apothecaries in Dublin were members of the Guild of Barbers. The patron of the guild was St Mary Magdelene. The Barbers’ Guild was founded in 1446 by a charter of Henry VI (25 Henry VI) (the earliest royal or secular medical foundation in Britain or Ireland, before equivalent civic establishments by the City of Edinburgh in 1505, and by the City of London in 1462), and it was united ...
Thomas Delaune (Present State of London, ed. 1681, p. 329), in an account of the Apothecaries' Company, says: ‘Among many worthy members [was] Dr. Gideon de Laune, apothecary to King James, a man noted for many singularities in his time, a great benefactor to the public, and particularly to the foundation of the Apothecaries' Hall in Black ...
Besides part of Merchant Taylors' Hall kitchens, the oldest interiors extant of a livery hall proper are those of the Apothecaries' Society, most rooms of which date from 1668 to 1671; significant portions of the fabric of this building are also medieval, from the 13th-century priory, part of which became Apothecaries' Hall.
Apothecaries' investigation of herbal and chemical ingredients was a precursor to the modern sciences of chemistry and pharmacology. [ 1 ] In addition to dispensing herbs and medicine, apothecaries offered general medical advice and a range of services that are now performed by other specialist practitioners, such as surgeons and obstetricians ...