The Galen medal was instituted by the Society in 1925 for valuable services or contributions rendered to the science of therapeutics. It is awarded on a broad basis, therapeutics being understood to encompass the whole spectrum of the art of healing, from preventative medicine to surgical intervention. The recipient of the medal in 2017 was […]

Early in May, six members of the Faculty of Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine travelled to the Curragh near Dublin to present a three-day Humanitarian Disaster Assistance Course. This course, which has been run on three previous occasions, is sponsored by the organisation Co-operation and Working Together (CAWT – which is dedicated to improving cross-border co-operation […]

The Faculty of Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine held a lecture on 9th May 2017 introducing our new Faculty President Dr Christina Dale. We welcomed our Speaker Mike Wooldridge OBE, who gave a lecture entitled ‘Race against the clock’ on a journalist’s perspective of Conflicts. (Left – right) Mike Wooldridge receives his medal from Dr Christina Dale, […]

The Sloane Lecture was established in 1973 to commemorate the tercentenary of the Physic Garden at Chelsea and named in honour of Sir Hans Sloane Bart; P.R.C.P. who granted the lease of the garden to the Society in perpetuity for a normal rent. It is devoted to the history of botany and especially the part […]

The lecture commemorated John Keats (1795-1821) who was a student at Guy’s and qualified at the Hall in 1816. The lecture was established in 1969 when the Royal College of Surgeons of England also co-hosted the Lecture series (http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/chh/eventrecords/Keats.aspx). This year the Lecture marks the 200th anniversary since the poet John Keats arrived at Guy’s to study […]

The Osler Lecture was inaugurated in 1967 and is named after Sir William Osler, the great medical humanist and historian.  It is normally given by the student who gave the best dissertation in the Diploma in the History of Medicine. Speaker: Mike Davidson, FRCS DHMSA Lecture title: The Foundation of Taunton and Somerset Hospital (1812) […]

The Worshipful Society of Apothecaries is pleased to announce that Sharon Messenger is on loan from the Royal College of General Practitioners for one day a week. Maria Ferran, Webmaster has been able to find out a little more about her. What is your current position? Having spent over 12 years as a senior research […]

CELEBRATING THE 400th ANNIVERSARY OF THE CHARTER On Monday 6th February the Rose Prize Winners were announced THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF GENERAL PRACTITIONERS & THE WORSHIPFUL SOCIETY OF APOTHECARIES OF LONDON  This prize commemorates William Rose, Apothecary of London, whose court case of 1701-04 established the legal foundation of General Practice in England and Fraser Rose, a […]

The Society of Apothecaries is pleased to announce that Dr Aroop Mozumder has been appointed as Dean to provide leadership and co-ordination to the Society’s academic activities. Aroop will work to continue to keep the Society’s high educational standards, but also to develop and implement new initiatives to extend the range and reach of the […]

The Gideon De Laune Lecture is named in honour of the Royal Apothecary, who was largely responsible for the grant in 1617 of the Royal Charter which separated the apothecaries from the Grocer’s Company, of which they had been a part for several centuries. The Charter established the Society as an independent City Livery Company. […]