Monday 8 February 2016: RPS and British Society for the History of Pharmacy joint lecture

Date: Monday 8 February 2016, 5.30pm

Venue: Royal Pharmaceutical Society, 66 East Smithfield, London E1W 1AW (Nearest tube: Tower Hill)

Event: British Society for the History of Pharmacy lecture

Title: ‘The forgotten partner: Silas M. Burroughs’

Speaker: Julia Sheppard, Burroughs’ biographer and former head of research and special collections at the Wellcome Library.

Overview: Burroughs’ contribution to pharmaceutical developments in manufacturing in the 1880s and 1890s and to the crucial first 15 years of the firm Burroughs Wellcome & Co has been unfairly overlooked. Indeed many of his achievements have been attributed to Wellcome. Not only was he a superb salesman but his ambition, energy, ideas and contacts were essential elements of that success.

No admission charge, all welcome. Refreshments from 5pm.

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The Pharmaceutical Journal, Monday 8 February 2016: RPS and British Society for the History of Pharmacy joint lecture;Online:DOI:10.1211/PJ.2016.20200445

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