Pharmacopoeias, Drug Regulation, and Empires - Making Medicines Official in Britain¿s Imperial World, 1618¿1968

Pharmacopoeias - books describing approved standards and composition of drugs - have come in many shapes and forms throughout the history of medicine. Stuart Anderson traces the 350-year development of -official- pharmacopoeias across the British Empire, from the local to national scale, and later to a single pharmacopoeia across imperial Britain.