An English catalogue of drugs, with their properties, doses ... and retail price ... to which is added, a description of the different medicine and chemical test chests ... / By Reece, Burgess & Co.

  • Reece, Richard, 1775-1831
Date:
1811
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An English catalogue of drugs, with their properties, doses ... and retail price ... to which is added, a description of the different medicine and chemical test chests ... / By Reece, Burgess & Co. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Til inevitable terminate—a prescription, which is a gentle hint for a fee ! This is the being whose occupation is in¬ sured by politic connections, and whose trade is visits : the vacant hurry of whose mind is discharged in common place questions sand trivial directions, and who is re¬ minded that he must think, or seem to think, only by re¬ collecting that he must prescribe T In the year 1805 the author published the Medical Guide, for the use of clergy and heads of families, which has gone through seven heavy editions. It has been translated into different languages on the Continent, and reprinted in America. In the same year he established a Chemical and Medical Hall, (£0, Bedford-street, Covent Garden) for the purpose of supplying* the public with genuine drugs, and the most choice chemical preparations, which he has the satisfaction to say, is patronized by the most distinguished members of the medical profession, and scientific characters in the United Kingdom. As no article is allowed to be sold there, or employed in the composi¬ tion of medicine before it is examined by the author, he can undertake to assure the public that the most implicit confidence may be placed in every drug and chemical preparation that is procured from it, and he therefore begs they will observe, that it is an invariable rule to affix the names of Reece, Burgess, and Co. to every article sold there, without which it is not to be depended upon as coming from the Chemical and Medical Hall. The concern is superintended by the partners, and no assistant engaged that is not thoroughly acquainted with the materia medica and chemistry, and particularly with the new and old names of the different phaxmacopoeias.