Selected quad for the lemma: authority_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	act_n	estate_n	parliament_n	2,433	5	7.1853	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42892	A discourse setting forth the unhappy condition of the practice of physick in London and offering some means to put it into a better, for the interest of patients, no less, or rather much more, then of physicians / by Jonathan Goddard ...	Goddard, Jonathan, 1617-1675.	1670 (1670)	Wing G914; ESTC R18769	21,612	61

what is usually obtruded in such cases and though he receive some fees yet may be less chargeable to the Patient than an Apothecary entertained as well as more satisfactory all such as allow more ability to a Physician in his profession than to an Apothecary It may be an objection against the course of Physicians preparing Medicines for their own peculiar use that it will cut off all free communication between Physicians and render Consultations insignificant To this may be answered that those Physicians engaged in this work between whom there was a good understanding and a free communication formerly may as freely communicate upon their peculiar preparations or at least such account of them may be given as shall be sufficient for judgment whether they be proper in the peculiar case before them or not But it is not to be expected that all the considerable Physicians should engage in this Course some being in full practice in combination or conjunction with Apothecaries from whom it is not to be expected they should trouble themselves about preparing Medicines and some depending upon Apothecaries to bring them into notice and acquaintance who must therefore comply with them not only in writing Bills to their best advantage but also as occasion serves enter on their leavings of Practice and perhaps consult with them In such cases indeed it is not reasonable to expect that any Physician should communicate a peculiar preparation of his own to another that can make no use of it but by divulging it to an Apothecary But as to consultation it may be said that any such Physicians meeting may proceed upon the Shop-Medicines to as good advantage as formerly neither is any Physician that prepares his own Medicines the less able to be sure to write Bills to Apothecaries but rather the more in that respect as far as he is free thereto There remains one grand Objection that this course of Physicians making their own Medicines must ruine the Apothecaries who are numerous and a Company of the City of London incorporated by Charter to this it may be answered that the Apothecaries are become so numerous in the City of London very probably upon encouragement by the advantages taken against Physicians to practise themselves and against Patients or Customers to set as high prices as they please and it is easily granted that without such courses a great part of them cannot subsist whereas it may be said of all the Physicians in London having any legal right to practise that they might live well on their Practice in the old course of writing Bills to Apothecaries were it not for the practising Apothecaries and other Empiricks However the numerousness of Apothecaries doth not justifie illegal and injurious advantages taken against Physicians no more than the numerousness of necessitous persons doth their indirect and unwarrantable courses of living during which the present course of writing all in Bills to Apothecaries must ruine the Physicians whose Education doth cost a good Estate or Stock and a great part of the time of their lives before they can arrive to get any thing and who in London are a Society incorporated by Charter having that Charter and other Priviledges established by Acts of Parliament as the Authority or Priviledge of them and others to practise elsewhere depends upon the Charters and Priviledges of the Universities which are also established by Acts of Parliament so that for a legal Establishment the Apothecaries can no ways vye with the Physicians And as to the merits of the Cause and Equity let it be considered that the Physicians did part with and freely allow one part of their Profession to be exercised by others yet never quitting the right of exercising that also themselves whence as elsewhere so in England it hath been always free and the Law expresly allows it and there is an express Reserve in the Apothecaries Charter to that effect for Physicians to exercise their Art in all its parts that upon this advantage is taken by Apothecaries to invade the whole by giving advice as well as making and selling Medicines and so by consequence if the Physicians should not resume the other they themselves must be ruined upon the abuses and advantages taken against them before set forth and it will soon appear whether it be not more equal that the Physicians should preserve themselves by recovery of their own than the other by invading theirs and getting all from them to which the former have all the right and the latter none at all But supposing such a course universally taken up of Physicians making their own Medicines of importance for their use in Practice a ruining of Apothecaries would not necessarily follow they would yet practise upon the meaner sort and perhaps many others whom for want of judgment they would by their canting and ostentation and by raising prejudice against Physicians draw into a better opinion of themselves beside the trade of their Shops but because such Practice of theirs must be gained by false suggestions upon the ignorance and credulity of the people and is illegal and may do more mischief than good in the Kingdom this answer is not to be accounted satisfactory therefore it is to be taken notice of that though the making of all Medicines for his own use in his Practice do of right belong to a Physician yet no such thing hath been here absolutely propounded or intended but only of some choice ones of great importance and efficacy and so many as may secure the Practice of Physick to the Physicians which may be far the least part of what there will be occasion to use in the whole practice of a Physician and so besides the sale of Shop-Medicines not only by retail but whole-sale whereby it is known many have gotten great Estates without dispensing Physicians Bills all other Medicines directed by Physicians may be had of Apothecaries who according as they approve themselves fair and faithful to Physicians will have the more furtherance in this kind from them For what was said before of teaching Medicines and Vehicles to Patients was intended to shew how a Physician if he were put to it might go through in a Cure without an Apothecary notwithstanding which it is free for him to prescribe all such Medicines to any Apothecary that he is satisfied in And it is far from the intention hereof to brand all Apothecaries many of whom are allowed to be honest and conscientious as well as eminently able and skilful in their profession and such as may be trusted by Physicians any of whom as they appear to be such for all that hath been said may have as much to do in their own proper Work and Trade as formerly or within a small proportion while Physicians engage no farther in giving any thing of their own preparation than the practise of Apothecaries hath necessitated them unto And even as to those Medicaments to be prepared by Physicians they also may be lodged with