Receipts for preparing and compounding the principal medicines made use of by the late Mr Ward. Together with an introduction, etc / [John Page].

  • Page, John, 1699?-1779
Date:
1763
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Credit: Receipts for preparing and compounding the principal medicines made use of by the late Mr Ward. Together with an introduction, etc / [John Page]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    pences, will, under certain Limitations, be equally divided between two Charitable Foundations: When all this is, I fay, confidered ; no Diffatisfa<5tk>n can, I think, arife upon account of Price. Neither can I fuppofe, that any Prudent or Weli-difpofed Per- fon can, or will be inclined to buy thefe Medicines of any New Makers of them, though offered at a lower Price, when he confiders that Thofe^ who have been long praRiced in preparing Medicines of this kind, are mod likely to do it in the bejl Manner: And that the Net Profits, accruing from the Sale of thole made by the two ingenious Chymids before- mentioned, v/ill go towards the Support of two Laudable Undertakings *, the One, intended to pre- ferve young deftitute Girls from Proftitution and Wretchednefs*: The Other, to retrieve them from Both L* I have now explained which of the late Mr. Ward's Medicines I propofe to lay open to the Pub- lick, at this time ; and, why I flop here. The very low Price, at which it is intended they fhall be fold, has been mentioned : But let not this Circumdance, which fhews how little they cod in making, and renders them attainable to the Lower Clafs of Man- kind, caufe them to be defpifed by the Higheft ; who ought always to remember, that they are of the fame Species with the Lowed •, and that Price does not alter the Nature of Things ; though I have feen it influence Tade •, which, like other of our Se-nfes, is too often governed by Imagination. Nor let this Circurndance of Qheapnefs detract, in the lead from the Character of my lute Friend , nor add too much to mine: For it fhould be made known, and not forgot, that He obtained fome oi his Medicines by Experiments *, fome from his Af- Jiftants in the Chvmicai Way, whom he paid } ancf others, •* The Afylutn, f The Magdalen.