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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    L 23r ] that of medicine. A Angle error may here produce death;, and the fame ma- terial become an antidote or a poifon, according to the degree of judgment with which it is employed. It is for want of fome fuch reflric- tions, as are here contended for, that the praCtife of medicine has, in all ages, been deemed an uncertain praCtife, and the practitioner himfelf expofed to much derilion and contempt. Uncertain it mult ever be, in many inftances, when condudted by the moft ikilful: but the degree of uncertainty of a medicine in the hands of a fcientific and an igno- rant practitioner, will bear no compan- ion whatfoever. The one is the orna- ment and benefaCtor of human nature, diftributing, like the Almighty himfelf, continual itreams of life, of health, and of happinefs around him: the other is