The medical assistant, or Jamaica practice of physic, designed chiefly for the use of families and plantations / [Thomas Dancer].
- Thomas Dancer
- Date:
- 1819
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The medical assistant, or Jamaica practice of physic, designed chiefly for the use of families and plantations / [Thomas Dancer]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![ac™ it as free From all those i inconyeniencies which Fiiznd in general the use of narcotics, espe- constitutions. In examining, however, Mr. | Braithwate’s medicine, we can see no differ- vehicle. If Mr. Braithwaite is a gentleman in-practice, he must knew that the prejudices are greater In regard to opium ke the Fingal tin such like talk, luring this Mi tee ‘they are cau- tioning t the ] practitione : they have, perhaps, been taking it without their’ know ledge, and consequenitly without any inconv enience. The writer of this article had occasion to see one lady, who had applied for reliefto Mr. Braith- purpose of relieving the violence of an occult canéer, and from some dislike to laudanum, which she had been in the habit of taking, t her eye on Mr. Braithwaite’s advertisement; his black drops ° were repeatedly given in the “fullest doses, without the smallest effect in Either, then, the black drops, if genuine, must possess very weak narcotic powers, and ef course do not deserve any character as a medicine, or if it is opium itself, to prevent its: sop effects, something must be added to it.”* ee OP ora | pishcceirmployedé tn advertising: Quack Ya ub; et Medicines, “ fy is no species of quackery-more de- serving of censure than that of vending com- positions under fictitious names, for the pur- pose of inducing the ignorant to suppose that “&. from whence they are named, when at fhe same time they are as diametrically op- Yes Me 2 .* Y can possibly be. So prevalent, however, is this practice, that we can ositively aver, ‘tha out of the 500 articles sp recified in the 400 are of this description. It is general]; ly supposed that this kind of trade is not cog- nizable by the laws of this countr ‘A and we suppose that Dr. Allen, by advertising his majesty’s authority,” is of the same opindn ; this idea is, however, er: roncous, and in a court of justice, proprietors of such medi- cines could make but a very damier efence, and this boasted royal authority, 1 which nothing more than the stamp, would avail nothing i in mitigation of the crime. ‘<A learned pen, has lately given his opinion, that it is a eriminal offence, and that the vender, as well as proprietor, of such a minal courts, which is confirmed by the opi: nion of the late lord chancellor, who, when he presided in the common. pleas, observed, © that those who advertise medicines of this description are subject to a prosecution for 2 Jraud on the public.’ Mm ** One would suppose, that.to every man’s mind and conscience, to tamper with i lives of our fellow-creatures, for the sake of lucre, must appear a crime of the greatest magnitude, and that he contracts there eby an awful responsibility to his Creator__but we fear the conscience i8 little consulted; J ‘* A respectable bookseller at Hull, on the testimonies published by quacks in favour 4f their medicines, asserts, ¢ that he took “the trouble of making application to the. pee le, vouchers to many mzraculous cures. . publications, are fictitious; others are obtained through the influence of gold ; ‘and,mai'y received the least benefit from. the n trum, to the recommendation, to which their names](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3288624x_0363.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
