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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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 ] as the Public cannot diftinguilh the Learn¬ ed from the Ignorant, it becomes high¬ ly neceffary to defcribe thefe Profeffors of Ignorance in their true Characters ; that from fuch Circumftances the re- nown’d College of Phyficians, with the Chemifts and other learned Practitioners, may petition the Parliament to eftabliih a Law, whereby this fpreading Evil may be effectually remedied, fince it highly concerns the Good and Safety of the Public. If you ever were concerned for the Lives of his Majefly’s Subjects, thefe ignorant Ruffians ought to have been principally confidered by you in your Pe¬ tition, and not the Trade in general: Thefe Dunces could never withftand the general Difcharge of your Ivory Pop- Guns, but fall within Point Blank of your Level. Thefe Tribes of Experiment¬ ing Chemifts and Apothecaries are certain¬ ly the Perfons whom Milton has admirably defcribed in the following Soliloquy: 0 ! what are thefe ? Death's Mini tiers, not Men, who thus deal Death Inhumanly to Men, and multiply ‘Pen thoufandfold the Sin of him who flew His](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30544208_0027.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)