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Credit: Memoir of the life of the late Jonathan Pereira ... Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![signed part of his course of lectures on Chemistry at the London Hospital to Dr. Letheby, and in 1846 he relinquished it altogether. In 1851 the Apothe- caries^ Company introduced some new regulations, making the lectures on Materia Medica a summer course, much to the inconvenience of the professors in the ^ JVTedical Schools. He therefore relinquished his office as professor ol Materia Medica at the hospital, continuing only the course of lectures at the .Pharmaceutical Society. In the year 1845 Dr. Pereira was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians; and almost immediately afterwards he became a member of the pharmacopoeia Committee of the College, to which we have reason to believe he rendered important service. He was subsequently appointed Curator of the Museum which office he held at the time of his decease. In this capacity he discovered, among_ the archives of the College which were under his care some^curious and interesting manuscripts relating to Materia Medica, which had been buried there for many years, and portions of which he was en-a^ed by tlTcKe a T1CW t0 pubHcation in the event of Permission being granted t ™£f Dr.°Pereira resigned his office as Professor of Materia Medica at the London Hospital, he transferred the most important specimens of his museum nearly 500 in number) to Bloomsbury Square, where he was attiSS lecturing These specimens, which afterwards became the property of the Phar- maceutical Society were particularly valuable on account of the ch-cumstanSs under which they had been obtained, many of them having been deS from original sources, which identified and authenticated them, others had somehistory attached to them, and a considerable number are the specimens filmed in hi Elements of Materia Mefica. Although he had parted with his museum he had not ceased to prosecute his researches, and fresh acquisitions continued to^come in from foreign corespondents, or other sources, in the course of his inve tigSns t t i Sr^6 S ??Cease he built a room for *e reception of hisS ' and had filled several cabinets, the contents of which were in process of?avvan^' xo a close. He had been examining a substance imported under the m,™ „f isinglass (figured m the Pharmaceutoal Journal for Januar/lLt m^^f ^dth^rec^^ he f£ Td Sv^ efTects of the fall* SK^d-v,?LWM afParen% recovering from the easy chair into an ^oJS/^^ fcuTd nStt0 ^ WW ? ™ minated his life in about twentv^inTtS ft ; fif occ™ved ^ich ter- some internal injury wffiK S fiL ^P** th?* ^ fal1 occasioned subject to occasioValS ofpaTpitaton5 l^L^ct ^ not such as to excite alarm, althoWh it is not wEl^ ?' howeyer> ™TC tTnfoanTtrSi0n e^1ed' ;Mch ™ ^^^tS^t^^U,P^ti0,1 con^wM^ hayea™ed during his some of which were read It SS„ 7S? # ™merate the following, .he original ^SSSS^ 0*~ —5 ThItX Car&rGrk?6/^ A?/*4 Pare% ; ter-Worm (a chine* roeS) • Potatosfnlh 'n'S?]li> Sumler Plsnt Wi Tt](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21936420_0015.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
