Remarks on the ineffective state of the practice of physic in Great Britain; with proposals for its future regulation and improvement, and the resolutions of the members of the Benevolent Medical Society of Lincolnshire / [Edward Harrison].

Harrison, Edward, 1759-1838

Date:: 1806

Credit: Remarks on the ineffective state of the practice of physic in Great Britain; with proposals for its future regulation and improvement, and the resolutions of the members of the Benevolent Medical Society of Lincolnshire / [Edward Harrison]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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${ 36 ) «very part of the kingdom, and other causes, likely to continue, so long as the profession re^ mains, in its present circumstances. ^dly. Medicines of every kind, are liable to so many adulterations, in the hands of com^ pounders, wholesale dealers, and others, that numerous disappointments in practice, can be traced entirely to these causes, which it will be impossible to prevent, until the drug-trade be subjected to some new, and better regulations, Athly. It appears, from authentic documents, that the regular Faculty do not constitute one- ninth * of the practitioners, now occupying physic for emolument, in the county of Lin- coln, Bthly. That among the numerous evils, which redound to a credulous public, from the teme- rity of ignorant empiricfes, there is one, which seems to merit particular notice, as involving very pernicious effects, as well moral as physi- cal—We allude to the unquestionable fact, that there are some, who acquire considerable sums of money, at the expence of an irreparable mischief, done to many pregnant women, and tlcir * See pages 38, 39,$