A few papers on foreign pharmacy and other subjects / by Joseph Ince.

  • Ince, Joseph
Date:
1859
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    to distinguish the florets of the disc and the ray, when he should be making infusion of chamomile ? Is it not better to serve the waiting customers with their Rochelle Salt instead of pondering the knotty question whether its crystalline system is equi or unequiaxed ? “It must be so, Plato, thou reasonest well.” The honest-minded, hard-working, self-denying band of students, as unassuming in deportment as assiduous in their pursuits, are not to be lightly thought of for the sake of some exceptions, nor are their earnest hopes to be offered up at the shrine of such an inflation, no more than the world’s locomotion should be stopped, because an occasional upstart drives an engine and sends it down an embankment. Another spectral form should be quietly put in its grave. Like the ghost in Hamlet it comes before us in a questionable shape, and asks—Is not this same Education an interference with Medical Men ? Every man in his own sphere, is entitled to his own proper honour; yet Chemists sometimes act, or at least speak, as if to compromise their individual independence were to pay the best tribute of respect to other people; the world is wide enough for all. If some physicians look with jealousy (which we doubt altogether) on the attempts made by Druggists to enable them with better skill and more consequent success to carry out the views of the prescriber, the simplest method is to let them, but the idea is quite gratuitous, and disproved by every-day experience. Curious indeed is the peculiar line of mental argument adopted by some cautious reasoners. Let but a Druggist eke out his intermittent Pharmacy (whose