The title ‘College of Pharmacy’ was suggested in early discussions about what to call the new body formed to represent chemists and druggists in Great Britain; but when it was founded in April 1841 it was to be called ‘the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain’. When additional functions were proposed for it fi ve years later discussion centred on whether the Society itself should take on the role of a college, or whether a college should be established alongside the Society. Th e Council consulted widely with its members, with medical bodies, and with legal and other experts. The matter eventually became subsumed within wider debates on medical reform, and subsequent Pharmacy Acts gave the Pharmaceutical Society itself the powers to operate as a college.
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