40th International Congress for the History of

Pharmacy, Berlin, 17 September 2011

Pharmacy, Books and Empire:

Spreading the Imperial Word

1864 to 1932

Stuart Anderson London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

The British

Pharmacopoeia

1864

Pharmacopoeia

of India 1868

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Origin of medicinal plants included in BP 1885

by continent (n = 175)

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Role of B.P. in medical education

‘The medical practitioners in this country may be divided into two great classes: those educated in England with all the traditions of European medicine, and wholly ignorant of Indian indigenous drugs; and those who have been locally educated in this country trained under European tuition.’

Use of British

Pharmacopoeia

1898 in

advertising

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Towards an Imperial Pharmacopoeia

‘The foregoing steps were taken in

pursuance of a design which had long

been under the consideration of the

Council, and were regarded as

preparatory to the ultimate production

of a complete Imperial Pharmacopoeia.

Preface to Indian and Colonial Addendum 1900

1900 Indian and

Colonial Addendum

to the BP 1898

Indian drugs that became official

COMMON NAME OFFICIAL NAME

• Indian Acalypha Acalypha BPC 1934

• Indian Bael Bael BPC 1949

• Indian Barberry Berberis BPC 1934

• Indian Birthwort Aristolochia BPC 1934

• Indian Blistering Beetle Mylabris BPC 1949

• Indian Copal Copal BPC 1934

• Indian Dill Dill BPC 1954

• Indian Hemp Cannabis BPC 1949

• Indian Jalap Turpeth BPC 1949

• Indian Liquorice Abrus BPC 1949

• Indian Tobacco Lobelia BPC 1949

• Indian Melissa Oil Citronella Oil BPC 1949

• Indian Plantago Seed Ispaghula BPC

• Indian Podophyllum Indian Podophyllum BPC

• Indian Rhubarb Rhubarb BP 1949

• Indian Saffron Turmeric BPC 1949

• Indian Sarsaparilla Hemidesmus BPC 1934

• Indian Senega Senega BPC

• Indian Squill Urginea BPC 1949

• Indian Tragacanth Sterculia BPC

• Indian Valerian Indian Valerian BPC 1949

• Indian Verbena Oil Lemon Grass Oil BPC 1954

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1900 Addendum to the

BP 1898 (Government

of India Edition 1901)

The British

Pharmacopoeia

1914

The British

Pharmacopoeia

1932