An enquiry into the designs of the late petition presented to Parliament by the Company of Apothecaries. With remarks, how far it deserved attention. Whereby the apothecary's present monstrous profits are exposed, how far it deserved attention ... to which is annexed a scheme, tending to prevent the empirical apothecary from practising; and the chemist from preparing and vending sophisticated medicines, and compared with those of the chemist. In a letter to the Company of Apothecaries ... occasioned by a late pamphlet, called Frauds detected in drugs [by J. Chandler].

Date:
1748
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Credit: An enquiry into the designs of the late petition presented to Parliament by the Company of Apothecaries. With remarks, how far it deserved attention. Whereby the apothecary's present monstrous profits are exposed, how far it deserved attention ... to which is annexed a scheme, tending to prevent the empirical apothecary from practising; and the chemist from preparing and vending sophisticated medicines, and compared with those of the chemist. In a letter to the Company of Apothecaries ... occasioned by a late pamphlet, called Frauds detected in drugs [by J. Chandler]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ *3 ] juft ice to the Public, I cannot avoid linking fome Druggifts and Chemifts to the former Chain of Empirical Apothe¬ caries, who, I am fenfible, are equally illiterate and ignorant: There are Num¬ bers who never had an Opportunity of a better Education than the abovemen- tioned, and yet with Faces of the mod im¬ penetrable Brafs (having raifed themfelves from the moft abje<ft miferable State of a Shoe-Black, or a Plough-Driver, to that of a Labourer in the Laboratory) have at length commenced Matters of Shops, and audacioufly written themfelves Chemists on their Signs with Letters, although they are fo ignorant both of the Qualities of Drugs and Chemical Medicines, that, if you Ihould afk them to explain the Virtues of a Chemical Medicine in Tech¬ nical Terms, or the Names of their Druggs in proper Latin, they would prove as unintelligible to them, as the Rabbinnical Commentaries of Aben Ezra or Solomon Jar chi. Nunc paulb majora canamus. A learned Author has given us the following lugubrious Tale, concerning one of thefe Chemical Druggifts: A Gentleman wanting a little Oak Bark, applied I