Dr. Middleton operated an apothecary shop in Williamsburg in 1776. Middleton, a tory, was forced to leave Virginia during the Revolutionary War. Robert Nicolson (1779-1783) Dr. Nicolson served his apprenticeship with Dr. Pasteur and then studied medicine in England. He returned to Williamsburg in 1779 and opened his apothecary shop. After the Revolutionary War he moved his shop to Yorktown where he practiced medicine until his death in 1798. William Pasteur (1757-1791) After the completion of his apprenticeship with Dr. George Gilmer, Sr., Pasteur studied in England for about a year. He returned to Williamsburg in 1757 and established an apothecary shop. From 1775 to 1778 he operated the shop in partnership with John Minson Galt. George Pitt (1744-1768) Dr. Pitt, born in 1724 in England and “bred a Surgeon,” established his apothecary shop in Williamsburg in 1744 at the “Sign of the Rhinoceros.” In 1768 he closed his shop and returned to England. He later came back to Virginia but no longer engaged in medicine or pharmacy. In 1776 Pitt, a tory, left Virginia again. He died later that year in England. Thomas Wharton (1735-1746) Wharton arrived in Virginia about 1703 as an indentured servant to Dr. Richard Wright. By 1735 Wharton had established an apothecary shop in Williamsburg, which he operated until his death in 1746. He left his drugs, medicines, and shop utensils to Dr. McKenzie. _Suggestions for Further Reading_ Whitfield J. Bell, Jr., _The Colonial Physician & Other Essays_. New York: Science History Publications, 1975. ——, “Medical Practice in Colonial America,” in _Symposium on Colonial Medicine_. Williamsburg: Jamestown-Williamsburg-Yorktown Celebration Commission and the Virginia 350th Anniversary Commission, 1957. John B. Blake, _Public Health in the Town of Boston, 1630-1822_. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1959. Wyndham B. Blanton, _Medicine in Virginia in the Eighteenth Century_. Richmond: Garrett and Massie, 1931. ——, _Medicine in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century_. Richmond: William Byrd Press, 1930. John Duffy, _A History of Public Health in New York City, 1625-1866_. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1968. Harold B. Gill, Jr., _The Apothecary in Colonial Virginia_. Williamsburg: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1972. George B. Griffenhagen, _Drug Supplies in the American Revolution_. Washington, D. C.: Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, Bulletin No. 225, 1961. ——, _Tools of the Apothecary_. Washington, D. C.: American Pharmaceutical Association, 1957. Patrick Henderson, “Smallpox and Patriotism: The Norfolk Riots, 1768-1769.” _Virginia Magazine of History and Biography_, LXXIII (October 1965), pp. 413-424.