University of Maryland School of Pharmacy - Terra Mariae Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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Jonathan Percira T EW WORKERS in the held of Materia Medica have possessed the ■ ■ outstanding quaHties of Dr. Jonathan Pereira. His precise investi- gations, untiring energy, and engaging personal qualities earned for him the respect and admiration of his contemporaries and a lasting place in the annals of pharmaceutical history. Born in London on May 22, 1804, Pereira obtained a meager early education; but by dint of earnest application to his studies, he was awarded the post of Apothecary to the Aldersgate Street Dispensary at the age of nineteen. Although medical practice was his ultimate object, he was much engaged in teaching chemistry and Materia Medica, hold- ing the positions of Professor of Materia Medica to the British Phar- maceutical Society and Lecturer in Chemistry at the Aldersgate Street Dispensary. He undertook the study of medicine at St. Bartholomew ' s Hospital, and in 1840 he became a licentiate of the College of Physicians. His subsequent rapid rise in medical circles was in no small part due to his popularity as a lecturer. He was a prolific writer, producing innumer- able papers and volumes on botanical and chemical subjects; but his greatest work was The Elements of Muteiia Medica, which appeared in i8 q. The high quality of his work was not without recognition, and in 1845 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. He was also an honorary member of the Pharmaceutical Societies of Great Britain, St. Petersburg, and Portugal; Corresponding Member of the Society of Pharmacy of Paris; and Examiner in Materia Medica and Pharmacy to the University of London. He died in 1853, and it is for his unexcelled efforts in the study and classification of the agents employed in the treatment of disease that he will be remembered alike by pharmacists and physicians.

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