A statement by the Society of Apothecaries, on the subject of their administration of The Apothecaries' Act, with reference to some supposed features of Sir James Graham's promised measure of medical reform.

  • Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London.
Date:
1844
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Credit: A statement by the Society of Apothecaries, on the subject of their administration of The Apothecaries' Act, with reference to some supposed features of Sir James Graham's promised measure of medical reform. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Voluntary association of medical practitioners of the class whose improvement it was sought to effect. The first object of this association was to obtain the sanc¬ tion and concurrence of the medical corporations in an application to parliament, for an act to regulate the practice of the apothecary, and surgeon-apothe¬ cary. Neither of these bodies having been induced to concur in the application, the association itself introduced a bill “ for regulating the practice of apothecaries, surgeon-apothecaries, and practitioners in midwifery, and compounders and dispensers of medicine, throughout England and Wales.” By this bill it was proposed to constitute a distinct body for the purposes of examination, to be composed of the heads of the College of Physicians, the College of Surgeons, and the Society of Apothecaries, in con¬ junction with a limited number of general practi¬ tioners. The Society of Apothecaries, in common with the other two medical bodies, opposed the passing of this measure, and the bill having also en¬ countered opposition from other quarters, was with¬ drawn after its first reading. The association, finding that the Government was opposed to the constitution of a fourth body for the examination of the general practitioner, abandoned the proposal, and renewed their efforts to secure the assistance of the medical corporations. The College of Physicians having in¬ timated that they would offer no opposition to a measure for the regulation of the practice of apothe¬ caries, by which the Society of Apothecaries should