Pereira, JONATHAN, pharmacologist, was born at Shoreditch, London, 22d May 1804, and was successively lecturer on chemistry and physician to the London Hospital (1841). Elected a Fellow of the College of Physicians in 1845, he acted as examiner in Materia Medica and Pharmacy from the establishment of the London University till his death, 20th January 1853. His books were Elements of Materia Medica (1839-40), and treatises on Diet and on Polarised Light (1843). See Memoir (1853).
Pereira, JONATHAN
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