Apothecaries Act 1815
Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
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Despite the act, training of medical people in Britain remained disparate. Thomas Bonner, in part quoting M. Jeanne Peterson, notes that "The training of a practitioner in Britain in 1830 could vary all the way from classical university study at Oxford and Cambridge to a series of courses in a provincial hospital to 'broom-and-apron apprenticeship in an apothecary's shop'".
In popular culture
- George Eliot refers to the act and other early 19th century reforms in the 1871–72 social novel Middlemarch, set in 1829, while describing Dr. Lydgate's approach to pathology.
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Subsequent developments
Section 30 of the act was repealed by section 2 of, and the schedule to, the Public Authorities Protection Act 1893 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 61), which came into force on 1 January 1894.
Section 5, in section 8, the words "or by the five apothecaries hereinafter mentioned, or the major part of them present", in section 9, the words from "and such court", where secondly occurring, onwards, in section 17, the words "or by five apothecaries so to be appointed as hereinafter is mentioned" and "or from the said five apothecaries", sections 18, 20 and 21, in section 22, the words "or the said five apothecaries so to be appointed for any county or counties as aforesaid" and "or to and for the said five apothecaries in any county or counties as aforesaid", and sections 25, 26 and 27 were repealed by section 1(1) of, and part X of schedule 1 to, the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1976, which came into force on 27 May 1976.
The whole act was repealed by section 1(1) of, and part V of schedule 1 to, the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989, which came into force on 16 November 1989.