A letter to the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London, of Dublin, and of Edinburgh, from Andrew Duncan ... respecting a proposal for the improvement of medicine, by publishing annually, under the authority of these three Royal Colleges, a Pharmacopoeia Britannica.

  • Duncan, Andrew, 1744-1828.
Date:
1826?]
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Credit: A letter to the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London, of Dublin, and of Edinburgh, from Andrew Duncan ... respecting a proposal for the improvement of medicine, by publishing annually, under the authority of these three Royal Colleges, a Pharmacopoeia Britannica. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    framed as to produce a complete and entire sepa- ration between the honest and intelligent Apo- thecary and the daring and impudent empiric. The sale of pharmacopoeia medicines might be entirely confined and secured to the former; while the latter might still be allowed freely to employ all his art in extending the sale of his infallible nostrums at any other shop he may incline, ex- cepting the shops of those regularly licensed by Government to sell pharmacopoeia medicines. From this separation by legal authority, there cannot be a doubt that much real benefit would be obtained. But, besides this, such an Act of Parliament might introduce into the shop of the regularly licensed Apothecary many important improve- ments. Among others, it might lead to an use- ful reformation in weights used in the shops of Apothecaries, and to a more speedy introduction into these shops of every article which may be hereafter discovered to be really useful in the cure of disease. The weights hitherto employed, grains, scruples, drachms, ounces and pounds, are attended with many inconveniences. On this subject, without adopting the new French weights, I would yet imi-