A statement of circumstances connected with the Apothecaries' Act, and its administration / by George Man Burrows.

  • George Man Burrows
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1817
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    15 [ had before delivered my opinions very fully on this subject, in the Review of Cross's Sketches of the Medical Schools of Paris, in the Medical licpo.silory*. I knew it was impossible for the Court of Exa- miners, which was not the executive body of the So- ciety of Apothecaries, to carry any extended plan into practice; but I felt that, as a constituted body, it could, at a trifling pecuniary sacrifice, set an ex- ample that would confer everlasting honour upon its public character, and a most essential service both upon the public and the profession. I therefore had arranged a few outlines, which^ as the first year of the services of the Court of Examiners was near expir- ing, and the same Members might not be reappointed, it was a fit time to propose.—On June I3th, there- fore, I submitted an introductory motion [No. VI.]. This I prefaced by a few general ren)arks, stating. * London demands a School of Emulation. Why do not the public teachers coalesce, and establish examinations, and exhibitions, and rewards ? Everv teacher would thus b4ve the strongest possible interest in the improvement and attainments of his pupil: for the eclat of his success would be reflected on the school where he was taught; and the student would be excited by the most powerful and active incentive to apply with zeal, that he maybe able to compete for honours which in professions never fade; and which, he well knows, must, in a country like this, where superior merit is always encouraged, lay the sure foundation for renown and fortune. • There is, in London,another defect we will cursorily mention, and that is the want of a reo ular school of Pharmacy. The apo- thecaries' shops in England do not furnish those means of in- struction in this important science which are necessary to form a good Pharmaceutist. Young men cannot acquire in such si- tuations a practical knowledge of Chemistry, of Materia Medica-, ur of Botany; and, when in London, if they are laudably desirous of prosecuting such studies, there are no institutions affording all the i-equisites for pursuing them with full advantage. A. school therefore should certainly be established in this metro- polis, where all these sciences and arts wcmld be practical/v taught and illustrated, especially Pharmacy, even to the very manipulations of the art. These projects are not chimeras ; they are obvious, simple in principle, and facile of adoption, and such as we hope ere long to see carried into effect. bcr for December, 1815, Vol. IV. p. 487—SS.
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