A concise handbook of the laws relating to medical men / by James Greenwood ; together with a preface and a chapter on the law relating to lunacy practice by L.S. Forbes-Winslow.
- Greenwood James.
- Date:
- 1882
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A concise handbook of the laws relating to medical men / by James Greenwood ; together with a preface and a chapter on the law relating to lunacy practice by L.S. Forbes-Winslow. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![CHAPTER V. THE LAW RELATING TO APOTHECARIES. The term apothecary is derived through the French, from the Greek word aTroOi^Kr], a repository, or kiding- place. It really signifies a person who practises pliar- macy, that is, one wlio prepares drugs for medicinal uses, and keeps them for sale. Later on tlie word was applied to those persons who compounded and dis- pensed the prescriptions of physicians and surgeons. Now, however, it generally describes those who practise medicine, and at the same time deal in drugs. There are two Societies having power to grant licenses to practise medicine in the British Isles—viz., the Society of Apothecaries, London, and the Apothe- caries^ Hall, Dublin. In England, previous to the reign of Henry VIII., when, as has been seen, systematic attempts were first made to regulate the practice of medicine, and the faculty was divided into physicians and surgeons, apothecary seems to have been the common name for a grocer or other tradesman who vended drugs, and was the general practitioner of that day. In the year 1542, an AcB was passed which enabled these](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21701829_0063.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
