Christopher Packe (chemist)

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

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 practised 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.