The ancient physician's legacy to his country ... Or, an account of the several diseases incident to mankind ... / [Thomas Dover].

  • Dover, Thomas, 1660-1742
Date:
1762
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Credit: The ancient physician's legacy to his country ... Or, an account of the several diseases incident to mankind ... / [Thomas Dover]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ =38 ] Th£ Muldts payable by our Statutes for the feveral Offences, no one may refufe to pay, un4er Pain of Violation of that Trufl due from him to the Society. Whereas it has been ufual for Apothe¬ caries and Surgeons to bring to Phyficians a Specimen of Urine from difeafed Perfons, and from fuch Infpedtion of Urine, to re- quefl a Prefcription for their Patient; and then under this Pretence of having advis’d with a Phyfician, to work the remaining Part of the Cure to themfelves, and for their own Profit, leaving to the Phyficians nothing but the bare jejune Fee for fuch Infpedtion of Urine; therefore we decree and ordain, That no Phyfician, whether Fellow, Candidate or Licenciate, do impart to any fuch Old-Women Enquirers, any kind of Advice, upon a mere Infpeftion of Urine, unlefs he fhall be called to the Pa¬ tient, and there, as Occafion may require, prefcribe proper Medicaments to be prepa¬ red by fome honeft Apothecary. Moreover we will and ordain, That every Phyfician fubfcribe to his Schedule, or Recipee, (as ’tis called) the Day of the Month,