Doctors and doctors : some curious chapters in medical history and quackery / By Graham Everitt.

  • Everitt, Graham.
Date:
1888
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Credit: Doctors and doctors : some curious chapters in medical history and quackery / By Graham Everitt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    taketh away their pains. Of such [medicines] doth the apothecary make a confection [a mixture].* Dr. Nathaniel Hodges, one of the doctors men- tioned by Defoe in his Journal of the Plague Year, writing in 1GG6, nearly fifty years after the invasion to which we have referred had commenced, clearly defines the duties of the apothecary, by a quotation from Renodseus, which we shall give preferentially in its English translation:— It is the apothecary's business to meddle with medicaments only, and in relation to their use to follow the physician's prescript; and that he may be fitted to execute his office he must be instructed to know- simples, to select the choicest, to prepare and compound his medicines. The servile parts of the art of healing, says another writer, of four years' later date, were committed to such as are now called chyrurgeons and apothecaries. The former were employed in applying external medi- * Ecclesiasticus xxxviii. 1.
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