| Description | Under an Act of Parliament of 1761, known as Lucas's Act, the College was granted the right to frame and publish a Pharmacopaeia cataloging all the drugs and medicines to be prescribed by Physicians and Surgeons, several attempts were made in the eighteenth century to prepare such a work, but it was not until 1794 that a specimen Pharmacopaeia was published for consultation. In 1802 Robert Perceval led an attempt to hasten publication and the first Dublin Pharmacopaeia came out in 1806. A second edition was published in Dublin and London in 1826 in Latin, with English translations coming later. In 1830 the London College of Physicians suggested the producing a joint publication with the Colleges in Edinburgh and Dublin, but the Dublin College decline and published the final edition of the Dublin Pharmacopaeia in 1850.
See also BMS/15 for Ireland's contribution to the 1864 British Pharmacopaeia. |