An enquiry into the designs of the late petition presented to Parliament by the Company of Apothecaries. With remarks, how far it deserved attention. Whereby the apothecary's present monstrous profits are exposed, how far it deserved attention ... to which is annexed a scheme, tending to prevent the empirical apothecary from practising; and the chemist from preparing and vending sophisticated medicines, and compared with those of the chemist. In a letter to the Company of Apothecaries ... occasioned by a late pamphlet, called Frauds detected in drugs [by J. Chandler].

Date:
1748
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Credit: An enquiry into the designs of the late petition presented to Parliament by the Company of Apothecaries. With remarks, how far it deserved attention. Whereby the apothecary's present monstrous profits are exposed, how far it deserved attention ... to which is annexed a scheme, tending to prevent the empirical apothecary from practising; and the chemist from preparing and vending sophisticated medicines, and compared with those of the chemist. In a letter to the Company of Apothecaries ... occasioned by a late pamphlet, called Frauds detected in drugs [by J. Chandler]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 3+ ] of their Inability to compound good Medicines, or were not honetl enough to do it, out of a felfilh Principle, were obliged to buy their Medicines from your Hall (the better to avoid the Penalty of Infpedion) it may be eafily compre¬ hended, what large Sums you muft an¬ nually amafs, when they became obliged to pay you Forty per Cent, more than to an honeft fair Trader. Your annual Im- polition extorted from every Shop in London, at Six Shillings each, has been acknowledged to amount to Fifty Pounds, and it has been computed, if your Bill had palled, that the Increafe of your Pro¬ fits, arifing from new Cuftomers within feven IVliles round, added to the Percjui- fites, which you would have annually col¬ lected from thofe who dealt ellewheie, would amount to the Sum of Six thou- fand Pounds and upwards, yearly. Your Obfervations on the Deceits and Uncertainties of Druggs and Medi¬ cines, are as new, as they are iui priz¬ ing ; and it is fuppofed that thefe mi¬ raculous Sopbifiications, fo abfurd and fcandalous, are the real Product of your late Midnight ^Machinations, contrived to unhinge the public Efteem of all the Trade, but yourfelves; for fince your Remarks