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Soon after the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (PSGB) was founded in 1841 its relationship with the Empire was made explicit. In 1844 Jonathan Pereira, a physician who had been appointed its first professor of materia medica, proposed that a committee be formed that could “be made the means of declaring to the remotest part of our colonial possessions the wants of the mother country, and conversely, of making known to England the capabilities of the different portions of the British Empire”.
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Anderson, S. (2021). Pharmacy and the British Empire. In: Pharmacy and Professionalization in the British Empire, 1780–1970. Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78980-0_1
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