Tirocinium medicum; or a dissertation on the duties of youth apprenticed to the medical profession / [William Chamberlaine].

  • Chamberlaine, William, 1749-
Date:
1812
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Credit: Tirocinium medicum; or a dissertation on the duties of youth apprenticed to the medical profession / [William Chamberlaine]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    weather, to such as these, who take much more pains to learn the best composition for cleaning, boot-tops, and spend more of their valuable time in taking spots out of the leather, than in studying the Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia, or learn- ing to dress a blister, to such, I do not address myself. These high gentlemen, who, have servants to wait on them, would despise and laugh at many of the precepts here inculcated ; No; the directions given in the succeeding pages, are addressed to the young pupil, favour- ed by nature with a good disposition, docile, tractable, and willing to make himself useful; whose parents, unable to pay a very heavy fee, have bound him to an Apothecary, whose busi- ness, not yet fully established, will not allow him to keen an assistant ; nor, perhaps, for tha first two or three years of his getting into busi- ness, even an errand boy—who, for that very reason, must sweep the shop, keep it clean ; and, after he has made up the medicines, carry them out to the patients; who must, in addition to these employments, find time to post his books, and write out his bills—aye, and at the begin- ning of the ensuing year, deliver them too. Whe.vv! exclaims Mr. Boot-tops, Why this man is an Utopian.—Who the plague could go through all this?—Not such as you Sir, who perhaps are too proud to wash a mortar, or
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