A letter addressed to Henry Warburton, Esq., M.P., &c. &c. &c., chairman of the Committee of Enquiry into the State of the Education and Practice of the Medical Profession, &c. &c., on the grievances affecting the medical profession / by a Junior practitioner.

Date:
1834
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Credit: A letter addressed to Henry Warburton, Esq., M.P., &c. &c. &c., chairman of the Committee of Enquiry into the State of the Education and Practice of the Medical Profession, &c. &c., on the grievances affecting the medical profession / by a Junior practitioner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    versities, were refused admittance to the fellow- ship, on the ground that they had previously practised as apothecaries ! Since the Society of Apothecaries will not permit a physician to practise pharmacy, it may be reasonably demanded what there is in the condition of the physician, which should debar him from mixing the medicines he is qualified to prescribe; and as the College of Physicians possess a power to prevent apothecaries from writing a prescription, it may be asked in what particular the education of the apothecary is so inferior, as to render him incompetent to enume- rate upon paper a list of those medicines, which he is not only authorised to prepare, but to prescribe. . If these distinctions alone constitute the differ- ence between the practise of the modern apothe- cary and the physician, why should they any longer be attached to separate bodies ? Why should they not rather be united, and an uniform and sufficient course of study and examination required from both ? The same remarks are, to a certain extent, applicable to the surgeon, who, however quali- fied to practise surgery, dare not supply medi- cines to his patients, without the licence of the Apothecaries' Company, The argument now entirely rests between the