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collection of data and the systematic arrangement ofideas,the application of mathematics and sound reasoning,and,above all,the experi-mental testing of hypotheses,advocated by men of the calibre of Johan Kepler(1571-1630),Galileo Galilei(1564-1642),Francis Bacon(1561-1626),and RenéDescartes(1596-1650)were,by the time of the Commonwealth,accepted roads to theadvancement of knowledge.A new intellectual outlook had evolved,as noted by JohnAubrey(1626-97)in 1671,\"Till about the year 1649'twas held a strange presumptionfor a man to attempt an innovation of learning”.  \nThe English apothecary was,of course,much influenced by these changes.Hedeveloped methods of inquiry and investigation,he experimented,he joined societies,he wrote to like-minded contemporaries,he published his findings,and,above all,hehad the good fortune to be caught in the toils of collectors'mania,be it\"curiosities”or new information.The apothecary had a particular interest in those fields that mostclosely impinged upon his own profession-botany,chemistry,and medicine.  \nAlthough considerable advances in the description and classification of plants andanimals had been made by 1760,no great theoretical principles or “laws”of biologyhad been developed.It should be noted,though,that the generation of scientists arriv-ing on the scene after 1760 was able to study an immensely richer collection of naturalhistory specimens from distant lands,which helped towards developing newinterpretations of Nature based on sounder doctrines.  \nThe mid-century still regarded chemistry as an auxiliary of medicine and not adiscipline in its own right,though some significant steps were soon to be taken.Thechemistry of gases,fundamental to developing chemical thought,owed much to thequantitative methods of Joseph Black MD(1728-99)and the skilful experimentalSwedish apothecary,Carl Wilhelm Scheele(1742-86).In this respect,the Englishapothecary made no direct and obvious contribution,but he was a part of a developingscientific community,his experiments were noticed and his papers were listened to.At his lowest assessment,he provided an audience to be convinced,a critic to bedemolished,and the support and mental stimulus necessary to most intellectuals.  \nMedicine was,in 1760,even more fragmented than botany.Many-perhaps toomany -systems and theories were enunciated,some of which were fanciful and farfrom useful,though Albrecht von Haller's(1708-77)Physiology indicated the path tobe followed.Clinical medicine was,however,making strides in the right direction,andhere the English apothecary,with his bedside observation and daily supervision of thepatient,came into his own.Whether he stayed an apothecary all his life,or elevatedhimself to physician's rank early or late in his career,the powers of observation,medical,botanical,chemical,or pharmaceutical,that he had learned stood him ingood stead.  \n# The apothecary as man of science\n\nBOTANY  \nIn no field of the developing sciences did the English apothecary have a betterrecord than in that of botany,individually or corporately.It has been suggested that itwas at the behest of the Society of Apothecaries that Thomas Johnson(c.1604-44)enlarged and amended John Gerard's Herball,but,apart from its organized herboriz-ing days,the apothecaries'first known corporate venture was the establishment of aphysic garden at Chelsea in 1676.202  \nIn 1680,that controversial figure,John Watts,was appointed superintendent at hisown suggestion;203 not,however,without opposition.Even though his appointmenthad been confirmed by the court(27 February 1680),a Mr Johnson was still grumbl-ing that he,“...desired to know what is wanting in the garden that this great chargemust be brought upon the company when 1,200 plants are there in a good conditionand a flourishing garden.\"204 Others had voiced their doubts by sa","cbCaivvbkkUm588E","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaivvbkkUm588E","pdf",2225774,17,"English","# The apothecary as man of science\n## 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