Volume 2

The craft and frauds of physick expos'd. The very low prices of the best medicines discover'd. The costly preparations ... condemn'd. And the too frequent use of physick prov'd destructive to health. With instructions to prevent being cheated and destroy'd by the prevailing practice / By R. Pitt, M.D. Fellow and Censor of the College of Physicians.

  • Pitt, Rob., 1653-1713.
Date:
1703
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Credit: The craft and frauds of physick expos'd. The very low prices of the best medicines discover'd. The costly preparations ... condemn'd. And the too frequent use of physick prov'd destructive to health. With instructions to prevent being cheated and destroy'd by the prevailing practice / By R. Pitt, M.D. Fellow and Censor of the College of Physicians. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    H E two former Impreffions of this Apo- # # logy, and the prefent ill State of Phylic in this Nation truly reprefented, and fome Re¬ medies thereof humbly propos’d to the two Houles of Parliament, have had fo good Succefs^ that the People begin to doubt^ that they are un¬ faithfully treated in Sicknefs* The more Intelligent applaud the generous Defign of re faring Vhyfc to its Innocence and Vfcfulnefs : and of faving to them]civs an exorbitant opprejfive Expence^ and their Life0 which is exposed for the purpofe of that Gain. 7 he Gentlemen of. the larger Capacities and deeper Penetration acknowledge that this pre¬ fent Reformation is the greate(l Benefaction, which can be given to the Public in an Afair, which af¬ fects every Perjon in the Nation, in the mofl ten¬ der Concerns of Efiate and Life. Many of them carry their Thoughts yet further0 and obfervr That every honeft Phyfician has in his Power a more extenfive Charity to the Poor, than any pri¬ vate Efiate can give, of curing their Difeafes and preventing their being undone in every Sicknefs: Be-