Observations addressed to the chemists and druggists of Great Britain on the Pharmaceutical Society / by Jacob Bell.

  • Bell, Jacobus, -1859.
Date:
[1841]
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Credit: Observations addressed to the chemists and druggists of Great Britain on the Pharmaceutical Society / by Jacob Bell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    which they would possess as an organized body, is lost in the confusion of inoperative individual efforts. They must, in their present position, submit to any indig- nity because they have no power to resist it. The “ Medical Reformers” have not abandoned their de- sign. They are only waiting for an opportunity to carry it into execution, and they are likely to persevere until an alteration of some kind is effected in the department under consideration. It being evident, therefore, that Chemists must and will be included in the scheme of “ reform,” it remains for them to decide whether they will allow measures of this description to be forced upon them by persons who are indifferent or opposed to their interest, or whether they will maintain their inde- pendence under such regulations as shall conduce to their own welfare, and, at the same time, satisfy the public demand and silence all future vexatious allegations. During the laborious investigation of the Committee this question has been maturely considered, and the result has been a unanimous conviction that the Chemists have no safe alternative but to take the government of their Body into their own hands. In case it should be objected that this measure would be inoperative without an Act of Parliament and a Royal Charter, we may observe, that the extent of its operation rests with the Chemists themselves. If every respectable Chemist in the kingdom would join the Society, and contri- bute his share of influence towards its judicious and efficient government, no legislative sanction would be necessary. The certificate of membership would, in course of time, become a guarantee of the proficiency of every member, as well as a test of his respectability; which circumstance alone would uphold the character of the Society, and render its usefulness