HOSPITAL PHARMACOPOEIA

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: ACC/2838
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: HOSPITAL PHARMACOPOEIA
Date(s)	: 1899-1922
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 0.08 linear metres
Name of creator(s)	: Guy's Hospital St Thomas' Hospital | London x Infirmary of the Augustinian Priory of St Mary Overy | 1106-1215 x 5th London (City of London) General Hospital | 1915-1919

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

A pharmacopoeia is an official treatise containing listings of drugs approved for use in a hospital, with their formulations, standards of purity and strength, and uses.

For histories of the individual hospitals please see H09/GY for Guy's and H01/ST for Saint Thomas.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Pharmacopoeia of Guy's and Saint Thomas Hospitals inscribed J Langford Moore, and pharmacopoeia of the North Middlesex Hospital, Middlesex County Council, inscribed Jas Coutts.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

4 volumes.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright: City of London

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Hospital pharmacopoeia deposited by Geoffrey Yeo, District Archivist, City and Hackney Health Authority, St. Bartholomew's Hospital, West Smithfield, London EC1A 2BE, 21 June, 1990 (Acc 2838).

Allied Materials

Related material:

See H09/GY for Guy's, H01/ST for Saint Thomas and BG/E and ACC/2712 for the North Middlesex Hospital.

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
January 2009