The history of medicine, so far as it relates to the profession of the apothecary, from the earliest accounts to the present period : the origin of druggists, their gradual encroachments on compound pharmacy, and the evils to which the public are from thence exposed; as also from the unskilful practice of ignorant medicasters, and the means which have lately been devised to remedy these growing abuses / published at the request of the Committee of the General Pharmaceutic Association of Great Britain by John Mason Good, fellow of the Medical Society of London, member of the Corporation of Surgeons, and author of the "Dissertation on the diseases of prisons and poor-houses''.

  • Good, John Mason, 1764-1827.
Date:
1795
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Credit: The history of medicine, so far as it relates to the profession of the apothecary, from the earliest accounts to the present period : the origin of druggists, their gradual encroachments on compound pharmacy, and the evils to which the public are from thence exposed; as also from the unskilful practice of ignorant medicasters, and the means which have lately been devised to remedy these growing abuses / published at the request of the Committee of the General Pharmaceutic Association of Great Britain by John Mason Good, fellow of the Medical Society of London, member of the Corporation of Surgeons, and author of the "Dissertation on the diseases of prisons and poor-houses''. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to have been particularly the cafe, where the dileafed were expofed, in the mod public ftreets, to the notice of every paf- fenger; that thofe \^'ho had formerly- labored under f milar complaints might enumerate the means they had made ufe of to recover the enjoyment of health*. i\nd, according to Strabo, no one was fuffered to pafs by without offering hi& opinion.and advice-f , - But it was fbon acknowledg-ed that D the public health was a concern of too much confequence to be entrufted ta fuch precarious, and, oftentimes, op- pofite decifions; and the art of healing became, from this time, more immedi- ately the province of the ftudious and the learned, of the legiflator, the phi- lofopher, and the prieft. Athotis, * Herod, lib 6. A 5 f Lib,. 16,