Discursory thoughts, &c : disputing the constructions of His Majesty's hon. commissioners and crown lawyers, relative to the medicine and horse acts : to which are added, the opinions and resolutions of the farmers in Scotland ... with remarks on the late trials concerning the Medicine Act / by Francis Spilsbury.

  • Spilsbury, Francis.
Date:
1785
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Credit: Discursory thoughts, &c : disputing the constructions of His Majesty's hon. commissioners and crown lawyers, relative to the medicine and horse acts : to which are added, the opinions and resolutions of the farmers in Scotland ... with remarks on the late trials concerning the Medicine Act / by Francis Spilsbury. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    D IS CURSORY THOUGHTS ON THE MEDICINE A C Ti WAS there ever an Act of Parliament intro- daced into a Britifh fenate with an exor- dium equal to that pofition which Lord John Ca- vendifti mentioned on this memorable occafion, in. the year 1783 ? viz. As quack medicines had done kluch harm to the public; it was fair gante to tax* them. Such an avowed principle in a Minifier of State, is a fpecimen of electricity which cannot fail to raife ftrange emotions in the breaft of any perfori not divefted of philanthropy. Lord Cavendifh mud have had great influence over his brethren in adminiftration, to perfuade them to join in terms fo oppoiite to all prudential meafures, refpecling the public welfare, as to countenance men of fup- pofed vitiated principleSj deemed Quacks, for the hopes of bringing into the Treafury a fum of money, equal to the amazing amount the fchemer of the aft had faid it would produce, which Lord Cavendifh owned, he was afhamed to men- tion. A This