Richard Vine Tuson

Richard Vine Tuson was a British veterinary author active in the late 19th century. Contemporary library and medical history records connect him with A pharmacopoeia including the outlines of materia medica and therapeutics for the use of practitioners and students of veterinary medicine, a work that was important enough to be revised and reissued after his death.

Sources from the period also identify him as Professor of Chemistry and Materia Medica at the Royal Veterinary College. That combination of teaching and writing helps explain the practical tone of his work: he wrote for students and working practitioners who needed clear guidance on drugs, preparations, and treatment.

Tuson is also associated with later editions of Cooley’s Cyclopaedia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information, a broad reference work spanning medicine, pharmacy, manufactures, and domestic economy. While biographical details about his personal life are hard to confirm from readily available sources, his published work shows him as part of the Victorian effort to organize scientific and professional knowledge into useful handbooks.