A letter to Sir Francis Milman, Bart. M.D. President of the Royal College of Physicians, on the subject of the proposed reform in the condition of the apothecary and surgeon-apothecary, with an appendix containing the correspondence between the general committee and the three corporate medical bodies, by one of the committee.

Date:
1813
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Credit: A letter to Sir Francis Milman, Bart. M.D. President of the Royal College of Physicians, on the subject of the proposed reform in the condition of the apothecary and surgeon-apothecary, with an appendix containing the correspondence between the general committee and the three corporate medical bodies, by one of the committee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    kem of imposture. The observations of Celsus, “ Canjecturalis esi ars medica,’^ must ever re- main a truth, with all thaf learning and talents can affect towarc[s perfecting it: but what epithet could be found to designate its real cha- racter, if it were left in the hands of men, who have never enjoyed any other Medical Educa- tion than what their file of prescriptions. has afforded 1 But, notwithstanding these evils resulting from the countenance given by Physicians and others to Compounding Chemists and Drug- gists, the Apothecaries have displayed no dis- position to restrain them from compounding. If indeed, the endeavour to get a law enacted, to oblige 'them to qualify themselves for their situation, be deeply injurious to the Chemists ** and Druggists who compound and dispense Medicines* in that, certainly, the Apothe- caries have offended. And I will not dispute that it may be more profitable and advantageous for Chemists and f)ruggists to compound pre- scriptions after their own fashion, and with materials of their own invention, than in a cor- rect manner, and with the materials ordered in the Pharmacopoeia: but I will contend, that the * Rcsoluiioni' of