Discursory thoughts, &c : disputing the constructions of His Majesty's hon. commissioners and crown lawyers, relative to the medicine and horse acts : to which are added, the opinions and resolutions of the farmers in Scotland ... with remarks on the late trials concerning the Medicine Act / by Francis Spilsbury.

  • Spilsbury, Francis.
Date:
1785
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    the licersce, they have npthing to do with the act relative to (lamps. Further, it was mentioned by Lord Caven- dim in the Houfe of Commons, in his pro- pofal of the fcheme, he was at a lofs to draw a line relative to medicines, fo as not to hurt the medical regular practice ; as to patent medicines^ they being peculiarly fpecified and on record, they could eafily be diftinguifhed and taxed. It muft be confeffed, had the number of medicines turned out equal to the appearance they form in a country newfpaper to have been all patent ones, which fill a column of a paper, ranged under the title of MEDICINES by the KING'S PATENT, the act would have been clearly underftood, and fatisfied all parties; but this ne- cromantic act bru (heel oft the gilded title, and only five medicines * could fland the teft, and prove a juft claim to the robe of royalty, out of near three fcore. Here was the rub—here was a difcovery which blighted their hopes of a gckleri harveft. When the circumftance (that the act only ex- tended to patent medicines) was mentioned to the Commiffioners by the proprietors of medicines affembled at the Stamp Office, a reply was made : If, gentlemen, you mean to make ufe of chica- nery arguments, the act will not produce any fum of confequence. I mall leave the public to judge who has been the greateft. adept in chica- nery. * Viz. Analeptic Pills, Ague Tintture, Spa Elixir, Samaritan Water, and Fryar's Drops. Thcfe *w;ere all that I and Mr. Crawford, the Solicitor of the Stamps, could iind, where the fourteen years were not expired. * When