Remarks on medical reform, in a letter addressed to the Right Hon. Sir James Graham / By Sir James Clark.

  • James Clark
Date:
1842
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Credit: Remarks on medical reform, in a letter addressed to the Right Hon. Sir James Graham / By Sir James Clark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    renders it unfitted for the present time, and its longer continuance is not only unnecessary, but would, I believe, prove a positive injury to the profession. The separation of Pharmacy from Medicine is a point strongly insisted on by some, while by others it is considered impracticable in the pre¬ sent state of the profession. Such a separation exists in almost every other country, and ought, and I have no doubt will do so in England at no distant period. The separation has indeed already commenced ; and if the general practitioner is placed in that position in the professional body which he has a right to expect, it will soon be complete.* Negative legislation would probably effect the separation without much disturbance to the present state of things. Were the druggists and chemists to restrict themselves to what is their proper business, that of preparing and dispensing medicines, the sepa¬ ration of pharmacy from medicine would be greatly facilitated. Regulations respecting the prelimi¬ nary education of the druggists, and their being submitted to a practical examination regarding their knowledge of drugs and pharmaceutical chemistry, before they are permitted to dispense * In Edinburgh I understand there are not above three ox four practitioners who supply medicines to their patients; all pre¬ scriptions are sent to Druggists.
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