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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    [ 22+ ] trull; and it arifes generally from the price at which he tells- his drugs. Though he fhould fell them, therefore, at three or four hundred, or even a thoufand per cent, profit, this may be no more than the reafonable wages of his labour charged, in the only way in which he can eharge them, upon the price of his drugs. The greater part of the apparent profit is real wages dif- guifed in the garb of profit*.” Perhaps this celebrated author is right in obferving that “ this is the only way in which an apothecary can charge for his Ikill and labour.” But if fix it is a way that ought not to be interfered with, or infringed upon by a clafs of people who have it not in their power to evince fuch Ikill and labour: it ought * Wealth of Nations. not