Held on Wednesday, 12 June 2025 at 6:30pm

Venue: Chelsea Physic Garden, 66 Royal Hospital Rd, London

SW3 4HS

Remedies from the New World in James Petiver's (1665-1718) Apothecary Practice:

To be given by Katrina Maydom

Katrina Maydom completed her PhD in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, where she was funded by the Wellcome Trust. Her thesis investigated the production, trade and consumption of New World drugs in the early British empire. It won the Kenneth Emsley Prize for History at St Edmund's College. She was also awarded the Burnby Memorial Prize by the British Society for the History of Pharmacy.

The Hans Sloane Lecture was established in 1973 to commemorate the tercentenary of the Physic Garden at Chelsea and named in honour of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. PRCP, who granted the lease of the garden to the Society in perpetuity for a nominal rent. It is devoted to the history of botany and especially the part played in it by the Apothecaries.