A chapter in criticism : practical chemists and therapeutical critics.
- Condy, Henry Bollmann.
- Date:
- 1871
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Credit: A chapter in criticism : practical chemists and therapeutical critics. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![welt-lcnown preparation*, caiculatiDg the original coet of the raw material used in the ntanufaetnre, ami drawing ailamaging oompariaon tetwoen it and the price charged for the finished artida a* aold to tins public. What an exquisitely cool indiridual must be tins self- appoiutetl interb rer with Mr. CoxnT’s profit*. “ We remon»trate«i with him,” »ay* he, for nuuntaining so high a price for tboee fluids In pruporiion to tiie intrinsic oust of tlie actire ingredients.” In the name (d all the analysts who are atteniling to oth«r people’s business instend of their own, by what law or right, moral or legal, does this writer consular himself autltonieii to print a tirade of remonstrance against Mr. Conbt for coo<Uicting his riustBeaa after bis own desires ' This indiridual, who, by hook ana crook, thinks he has made himself I acejuainted with the mnemioet secrets of Mr. tJoxDV’s btwiness, and dictates so coolly to him on the amount of profit be ought to be satisfied with, is not bound to pay this profit to Mr. (,’oxdt, but he ■ has no right to attack him upon the subject, and should remember 1 that he bus bean guilty of u gmsa breach of profaesional etiquette Mn making public that which is Mr. Conoy's tra<le nayslery.” The ■writer may havr' kept on the windy side of the law this time, but a I repetition of his experiraeiit might load to results little exjiected, bow- t arer deserved.—7'Af Oroeer, Doc. !1, 1870. We hare been pained, thoagh not altogether disappointed, Ito observe that the J'harma/^ett/ic/il Journal, which ought to 'be conversant both with the ethics of the phamiaccntical ] profession and the technical chemistry of all substances and £ preparations connected with the Phannacopooia, has, with iConsidcrable warmth, and as wo venture to think will yet ib<‘ apparent to its conductors, with too much haste, on two (Occasions, set apart a largo portion of its crowded pages to Jntimato its approval and sanction of Th- Vrtictiiicmer's proceedings. For the sake of its reputation for the com- :monest fair play, wo should be sorry to think that that ^approval was given without duo consideration of the case i Imt, for the sake of its scientific reputation, we should bo •still more grieved to think that the analysts of the official jonrnal of pharmacy in this country had acted so carelessly ■ and imbecilely as to obtain results identical in imaginative error with those they pretended to judge of.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22308775_0007.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
