The frauds and villanies of the common practice of physick; By R. Pitt, M.D.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1705 Excerpt: ... ( ftified our Impeachment, and with Sir Tho. Millington, and 5-or 6 of us dire&ed Medicines to be prepar'd for the Army, which the King Commanded in Perfbn.the next Year. We had the thanks of all the Officers, and their acknowledgment, that every Difeafe was either prevented or cur'd by that, the beft Provifion any Army in Europe had ever made to oppofe-and overcome the Difeafes, their Enemies, which lay in wait to furprize them in their Incampments, Marches, and the Trenches. I refblv'd then to withdraw and take my leave of you, having given you fb much trouble, and receiv1d the Cleareft: and ftrongeft Evidences of the prefent infufferable State of Phyfick. The Confejuences you have infer'd do naturally and neceflarily follow your Premifes. The Apothecaries fhall be oblig'd to keep their Shops. Their Medicines muft be often view'd and warranted by the Phyficians, who muft frequently confider all the Simple and unmixt, and the various Mixtures of them in the Compounds; to be able to difcern their Goodnefs. The Nobility and Gentry and Merchants of the larger Families muftentertain a Phyfician in Ordinary, to defend them againft their Difeafes, and the greater danger of the Apothecaries aflaulting them with too many of their vile Remedies. You muft at your own Houfes, by your own Servants, or here in the Difpenfary in common, provide your moft valued Medicines from your Patients. You muft give us leave at all times to fend to this Place at any time for the common Preparations to compare them with thefe fold in the Shops abroad. Your Profeilion cannot fiipport it felf, uulefs you cure your Patients with your own Preparationss, till the Apothecaries hall renounce all Pretence to the impudent Invafion of advifing and prefcribing, as Phyficians. 1 prefume, I fhal...