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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    t4«] livated with a Mercurial Ungueilt, out¬ wardly applied; others cannot be falivated by this Means, but the Bufinefs is well performed with Mercurials inwardly : the Bark will purge feme Confutations vio¬ lently, and prove highly Reftringent to others; and thefe Things happen quite the Reverfe to the fame People at different Times, according to the Alteration of the different Fluids, in the Body: but as the Body and Confutation of Man is fo very unfable, and fubjecl to fuch a per¬ petual Round of Changes, occafioned by the Air, Diet, &c, that it may be truly faid never to continue in the fame State for two Hours; and as Medicines are known to affed the fame Body differently J j at different Times; how can it be made appear, that one Apothecary fhould know the Conftitution by being ufed to the Pa¬ tient, any better than he, who is an entire Stranger, and forms Ids Judgment accor¬ ding to the Symptoms of the Pulfe, by proper Queflions and external Diag¬ noses? It is certainly a Talk too hard for the mo ft able Phyfician. All thefe Fads evince the Neceffity of employing that Perfon as an Apothecary, who by his peculiar Genius and Learning, can befl invefigate the primary Caufe and Nature