A letter to Sir Francis Milman, Bart. M.D. President of the Royal College of Physicians, on the subject of the proposed reform in the condition of the apothecary and surgeon-apothecary, with an appendix containing the correspondence between the general committee and the three corporate medical bodies, by one of the committee.

Date:
1813
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Credit: A letter to Sir Francis Milman, Bart. M.D. President of the Royal College of Physicians, on the subject of the proposed reform in the condition of the apothecary and surgeon-apothecary, with an appendix containing the correspondence between the general committee and the three corporate medical bodies, by one of the committee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2i\ and to secure this, he vshall not ])e sufTered to offer himself before he has'attained his sixteenth % year. This is evidently the best means of hiying a foundation for those future studies that are to qualify him as a practitioner. It may, however, be urged, and with some show of reason, that a classical education is unnecessary, and refining too much ; but, it is to be presumed, that, by demanding’ this qualification in apprentices, a superior description of youth will be introduced into the Profession ; which, with the proposed line on indentures, will eflbct much in the outset for its future respectability. An acnpiaintance also with the Greek and Latin languages cannot but be regarded as ^‘ssential, when it is cmisi- dered that almo.st all the terms of Anatomy and Chemistry, and many of the names of diseases, are derived from Greek roots; and that the Latin is, and probably always will be, the lan- guage of prescription. It is, also, of the first importance, fhat a young man should be able to examine the opinions and practice of the Fa- lluTs of physic in the language in which they Avrote^; and as classical learning is an ornament ft inav 1)0 siip|)oscil to be rofmlnjj; to.o nuioTi to expect that Ibc \ oui)g Apodiccary shall read (ho ancient medical authors in (lu! original languages: but as an .‘\po(hccary’s pupil may rise to tiic highest honours of the rrofossioii. .a complelo classical education is .sliongly to be recommended.