>Please can anyone advise what (if any) training, licence or capital
>might have been needed to become a "druggist" in early / mid-19th
>century England?
I am sure that in the 1990s there was quite a lot written about
"professionalisation", mainly by sociologists, and that the fight for
control between doctors and chemists was one of the main examples. But I
cannot, for the life of me, find a reference.
In the local context of Wolverhampton I have done a few web pages about
local chemists (and herbalists and others) and what an ill defined
occupation it was. You will find it at:
http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/articles/chemists/chemists01.htm
Frank Sharman
Wolverhampton
01902 763246
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