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BELL, JACOB (1810-1859)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 686 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BELL, See also:JACOB (1810-1859) , See also:British pharmaceutical chemist, was See also:born in See also:London on the 5th of See also:March 181o. On the completion of his See also:education, he joined his See also:father in business as a chemist in See also:Oxford See also:Street, and at the same See also:time attended the See also:chemistry lectures at the Royal Institution, and those on See also:medicine at See also:King's See also:College. Always keenly alive to the interests of chemists in See also:general, Bell conceived the See also:idea of a society which should at once protect the interests of the See also:trade, and improve its status, and at a public See also:meeting held on the 15th of See also:April 1841, it was resolved to found the Pharmaceutical Society of See also:Great See also:Britain. Bell carried his See also:scheme through in the See also:face of many difficulties, and further advanced the cause of See also:pharmacy by establishing the Pharmaceutical See also:Journal, and superintending its publication for eighteen years. The Pharmaceutical Society was incorporated by royal See also:charter in 1843. One of the first abuses to engage the See also:attention of the new See also:body was the practice of pharmacy by unqualified persons, and in 1845 Bell See also:drew up the draft of a See also:bill to See also:deal with the See also:matter, one of the provisions of which was the recognition of the Pharmaceutical Society as the governing body in all questions connected with pharmacy. For some time after this the question of pharmaceutical legislation was widely discussed. In 185o Bell successfully contested the See also:borough of St Albans in See also:order that he might be able to See also:advocate his proposals for reform more effectually in See also:parliament. In 1851 he brought forward a bill embodying these proposals. It passed its second See also:reading, but was considerably whittled down in See also:committee, and when eventually it became See also:law it only partially represented its See also:sponsor's intentions. Bell was the author of an See also:Historical See also:Sketch of the Progress of Pharmacy in Great Britain. He died on the 12th of See also:June 1859.

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