The power of gold displayed! : in the humane proposal of the Right Hon. William Pitt, Chancellor of the Exchequer, to bring forward an Act to put His Majesty into the disagreeable situation of signing a decree, that no sick or lame person, in Great Britain, shall have a medicine of repute without paying tribute : which the writer contends, is not justifiable either by the law of God, or man, and is a disgraceful impost, as it places the life of a human being in competition with a three-penny or six-penny stamp, &c. / by Frs. Spilsbury.

  • Spilsbury, Francis, 1733?-1793.
Date:
1788
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Credit: The power of gold displayed! : in the humane proposal of the Right Hon. William Pitt, Chancellor of the Exchequer, to bring forward an Act to put His Majesty into the disagreeable situation of signing a decree, that no sick or lame person, in Great Britain, shall have a medicine of repute without paying tribute : which the writer contends, is not justifiable either by the law of God, or man, and is a disgraceful impost, as it places the life of a human being in competition with a three-penny or six-penny stamp, &c. / by Frs. Spilsbury. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    BOOKSELLERS o F GREAT BRITAIN, Who had impofed on the Public, Stamps with the common Medicines, only through Fear of an Ex- chequer 'Threat, under the Notion that the Atd of Parliament, as inftituted by Lord John Cavendijh again ft Patent Medicines, 1783, included all other Ncftrums they fold. Gentlemen, Is there occafion to add refs myfelf once more on this mournful fubjedt, to perfuade you to adt as men, endowed with reafon, as citizens of a free country, bleffed with the name of Britons ? Sur- vey your fetters, woven by imaginary power, ri- vetted by terror, which have dilgraced yourfelves, and refledt no credit either on your King or coun- try. The Barons of the Exchequer, the guard!*- ans of conftitutional freedom are now your friends ; they have declared from the Bench of Juftice, no fuch acts as the medicine act is, (which operates only by fear, in a partial manner on the fubjedt, contrary to the didtates of reafon, juft ice, and hu- B manity.
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