The valetudinarians Bath guide, or, The means of obtaining long life and health : dedicated to the Earl of Shelburne / by Philip Thicknesse.
- Philip Thicknesse
- Date:
- MDCCLXXX [1780}]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The valetudinarians Bath guide, or, The means of obtaining long life and health : dedicated to the Earl of Shelburne / by Philip Thicknesse. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![there are many in tLis city, whp are fufficiently known to be able, and honcft nien-.-and therefore left 1 fhould be thought to have either partiality or prejudice. I fhall meniion them only in generah Their abodes, as' well as the Phylicians, and Surgeons, need not be pointed out, in a Bath Guide : But it is necefiary the author of the Bath Guide Ihould point out dangers which neither the fick patients, nor their afflicted friends might be a\vare<)f, and therefore a careful good Apo- thecary fhould be applied to, who is not above his bu- fmefs, and a phyfician, who is above prefcribing for the benefit of the Apothecary; when he can do no- thing for the benefit of the patient. It is bad enough to be fick, but to be fick, and to take phyfic too, is ftill worfe. In Paris the rules and regulations about preparing and felling of druggs are infinite, and care is taken, that none fhall be bought but from the hand of the mafter Apothecary. Les epiciers [grocers] who are allowed to fell rhubarb and fenna only in large quantities, are liable to a fine of five hundred livers if they vend medicines in fmall, and the Apothecaries arc upon oath, bound to keep the key of all poifonous, or dangerous druggs, and not even to traft their wives, children or fervants with it on any account, nor even vend them without being perfeftly fatisfied who the perfons are to whom they are delivered. But in England the tinfture of rhubarb and the exttaft thebai- cum, the arfentc and the cream of tartar, are as often clofely bottled, or boxed together, as Will and Mary on the-coin;: Were Engliflimen to read the infinite care that is taken in Paris to guard againft the dangers of Charlatans and.quack medicines, he would blufli for the jiegleB, nay encouragement given, to both, in London. How many hundred people have been fent into the other world within the prefent century by eating foups .2ii\di ragouts, made in copper veffels poifoned by the verdigris, .they arc fo prone to produce, and who can fay that the fame fiaul effects have not arpfe from im^ proper](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21167278_0034.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
