The modern practice of physick vindicated, from the groundless imputations of Dr. Pitt / [Joseph Browne].

  • Joseph Browne
Date:
1704
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    . “Throats are to be cut witha Feather, “We “would not be fufpetted to defign any prejudice to ~** the Indujtrious and caréful Apothecary. Here’s ~ a fair confeflion of his defign againft the’ Apo- - thecaries in general, but he wor'd not have them fefped him, but that he has fome fhate of kind- “nefs however for’ the’ Induftrious’:” J] don’t ‘queftion but they will thank hin for his Civil “ties all together, when they find he aims, not ‘at a Regulation of the abufes that aré practiced “in the Trade,but ftrickes at the very deftruction ‘of ’em at once, when he advifes the Richer Fa- ‘mulies to keep''a ftock of proper Medicines by _ em, to be compotinded and mix’d’ by the Phy- — “fician in their Honfes; and to thofe that fell at reafonable rates, he fays they either buy ’em by — (Whole-fate, or of the Chymift, and fo they can- — not know whether ‘the Ingredients be truly — good, but it may be fufpeted they are not; asit — may for the fame reafon at the Di/penfary, where _ all their chief Preparations are either bought of — the Chymift, or made up by themfelves, which — is worit of all; flnce the beft of ’em cannot be ~ Auppos’d to have had more experience thena — Prentice Boy uniue of his Apprentifhip, which — they have not yet ferv’d in the Di/penfary. But — they prefume no€ to fet the prices on the Pre- — parations of the Shop; a good reafon for that | bécaufe they underftand ’em not, as f fhall prove © hereafter : Nay, they underftand not their own © Prices, for fome of their Societies, in their Pre- | {criptions to their Difpenfary, fometimes mark the'very fame Compofitions at 6d. one time, and double the Price at another ; as, veral that — ie i ¥. ¥ : | : - Ae