PEREIRA

Jonathan (son of an underwriter at Lloyd’s). b. Shore ditch, London 22 May 1804; educ. Alders gate st. general dispensary and St. Bartholomew’s hospital; L.S.A. 6 March 1823; M.R.C.S. 1825, F.R.C.S. 1845; apothecary to the dispensary 1823–32, lecturer on chemistry 1826–8, lecturer on materia medic a 1828–41; F.L.S. 1828; profe or of materia medic a in new medical school in Alders gate st. 1832; lecturer on chemistry at the London hospital 1833–51, a istant physician 1841–51, physician 1851 to death; F.R.S. 3 May 1838, member of council 1843; examiner in materia medic a to univ. of London 1839; L.R.C.P. 1840, F.R.C.P. 1845, curator of the museum to death; M.D. Erlangen 1840; profe or of materia medic a to Pharmaceutical society 1843–52; author of A translation of the pharma copæia of 1824, 1824; A selection of prescriptions for students 1824, 18 ed. 1890; Manual for medical students 1826; General table of atomic numbers 1827; The elements of materia medic a, 2 parts 1839–40, 6 ed. 1874; A treatise on food and diet 1843; Lectures on polarised light 1843, 2 ed. 1854. d. 47 Finsbury sq. London 21 Jany. 1853. bur. Kensal Green cemet., bust by McDowall executed for London hospital. Pharmaceutical Journal March 1853 p. 409 portrait ; Proc. of Linnæan Soc. ii 237–9 (1855); J. Bell and T. Redwood’s Pharmacy (1880) 224; G.M. xxxix 320–2 (1853); I.L.N. xxii 77, 78 (1853) portrait .