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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    [irf] ■ is fo far completed, he may venture fafely upon the moft abftrufe Prepara¬ tions, and at laft be acknowledged a Proficient in that noble Science. To a Man thus qualified, the Method of com¬ pounding Galenical Medicines will very naturally occur, though in this, there is more Honefty than Knowledge required; but it muft be allowed, that no Man knows how to mix and proportion In¬ gredients of various Qualities, fo well as he who is acquainted with Chemical Prin¬ ciples ; and yet, what Scores can we pro¬ duce pretending to this Science, who cannot even define nor defcribe the Dif¬ ference between Acid and Alkali ? Ho w is it to be expedted that thefe Pretenders to this Art, fhould compound and prepare Medicines, when they are not capable of inftrudting themfelves by the perufal of Authors, fince feveral of them can fcarce read or write, nor un- derftand what they do read in a Chemical Author wrote in the plaineft Englijh '? What muft they do then with Latin Au¬ thors, by which they may reap fuch con- fiderable Advantages ? or what could they do, even with the Pharmacopoeia untran- flated ? Res ipfa loquitur. But this is not all.