Medical and chirurgical reform proposed, from a review of the healing art, throughout Europe, particularly Great Britain : with considerations on hospitals, dispensaries, poor-houses, and prisons; observations on the apothecaries late application to Parliament; and proposals for general legislative regulations : including hints for improving the healing and ueterinary arts / lby T. Champney, member of the Corporation of Surgeons; gurgeon to the Poultry, New, and Ludgate counters; fellow of the Medical Society; the Physical Society; the Lyceum Medicum Londinense; medical assistant of the Royal Humane Society; and practitioner of surgery, pharmacy; and midwifery in London.

  • Champney, Thomas, 1761-1816.
Date:
1797
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Credit: Medical and chirurgical reform proposed, from a review of the healing art, throughout Europe, particularly Great Britain : with considerations on hospitals, dispensaries, poor-houses, and prisons; observations on the apothecaries late application to Parliament; and proposals for general legislative regulations : including hints for improving the healing and ueterinary arts / lby T. Champney, member of the Corporation of Surgeons; gurgeon to the Poultry, New, and Ludgate counters; fellow of the Medical Society; the Physical Society; the Lyceum Medicum Londinense; medical assistant of the Royal Humane Society; and practitioner of surgery, pharmacy; and midwifery in London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    { ) to the fervices done. A medical gentleman ob- ferves, •* that the flave-trade can never be abolifiied, while the apothecary's fituation ftiall continue as at prefent. That the apothecary in town is frequent- ly fent for to a great diftance, and required to go immediately, on the mod trivial occafions; as to confult about inoculating a child at fome diftant pe- riod, or attending a lady at a diftance of fome months, which might have been explained by a note, and his vifit fuited to his other engagements, or deferred to a future day; and that hurrying meffages, of fuch a nature, frequently are received in an ambiguous way, fo as to caufe him to be fought in hafte, at a great diftance, and often in an evening, or on a Sunday, every apothecary, of anypradlice, mull have had many proofs; and not one farthing can be charg- ed for thefe, and many other confultations of a like nature, where no medicine is fent, be the diftance or hurry ever fo great. Surely there can be no good rcafon, why an attorney ftiould have 3s. 4d. 6s. 8d. or 13s. 4d. for a confultation, while an apothecary, whofe education has often been more arduous and more expenfive, fliould have no reward; efpecially if called in cafes of emergency, perhaps in the night, where his fervices are often great, and no fecond vifit neceftary ; or, when it is, falls the next day to the ufual family attendants, the phyfician and the drug- gift. That thofe who praftife in the country, and who often have had an expenfive and general education, X a.re