Christopher Packe (chemist)

Christopher Packe (born in or before 1657, died in or after 1708), was an English chemist.[1]

Packe set up his laboratory in 1670 at the sign of the "Globe and Chemical Furnaces" in Little Moorfields, London, and styled himself a professor of chemical medicine. He practiced as a quack under powerful patronage, including that of the Hon. Robert Boyle and Edmund Dickinson, physician to the king, and in 1684 he circulated a list of his specifics.[2]

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In 1689 Packe brought out in goodly folio a translation of the "Works of the highly experienced and famous chymist, John Rudolph Glauber", accompanied by the original copper plates, which he had purchased at Amsterdam. This undertaking occupied him three years, and he secured a large number of subscribers.[2]

Packe other publications were chiefly designed to promote the sale of his specifics, and are as follows:[2]

A son, Edmund Packe (fl. 1735), calling himself "M.D. and chemist", carried on the business at the Golden Head in Southampton Street, Covent Garden. He published an edition of his father's Mineralogia (undated) and An Answer to Dr. Turner's Letter to Dr. Jurin on the subject of Mr. Ward's Drop and Pill, wherein his Ignorance of Chymical Pharmacy is fairly exposed, octavo, London, 1735.[2]

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