The history of medicine, so far as its relates to the profession of the apothecary, from the earliest accounts ... the evils to which the profession and the public have been ... exposed ; and the means ... devised to remedy them / Published at the request ... of the General Pharmaceutical Association.

  • John Mason Good
Date:
1796
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Credit: The history of medicine, so far as its relates to the profession of the apothecary, from the earliest accounts ... the evils to which the profession and the public have been ... exposed ; and the means ... devised to remedy them / Published at the request ... of the General Pharmaceutical Association. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ]ife. As a druggift, however, and as a means of his obtaining thefe luxuries and pleafures, he does well to believe fo. And happy, in- deed, would it be for the whole brotherhood of medicine, if he could pcrfuade the world, at large to believe with him. No longer could there be a complaint, or a murmur, from the tongue of any medical man, even the moil obfcure. I would chcarfully forgive him his attack upon me; and would be the Aril perfon to propofe an addrcfs of thanks to him from the General Pharmaceutic AAociation of Great Britain. Unluckily for us, how- ever, this learned writer happens to be mif- taken in his conjecture: and that I may not be accufed of Angularity in conceiving fo, as alfo for the better information of Jofeph Brad- ney, Efq. himfelf, I have added, in a note be- ' low, the tranllation of this paflage, from an author who wrote it, for the ulc of the pub- lic, more than twenty years Ance*. Squire * u All handicraftfmen have but a mean fort of call- ing ; and it is impoflible that a workfbop fhould have any thing that is genteel in it. Further yet, all thofe trades