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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60776	A rebuke to the authors of a blew-book call'd, The state of physick in London which is indeed the black and blew state of physick, dated from the college, and signed by Th. G. and R.M. / written in behalf of the apothecaries and chirurgians of the city of London by William Salmon ...	Salmon, William, 1644-1713.	1698 (1698)	Wing S449; ESTC R22575	28,636	34

far that never return and I am yet in some hopes they may see their fatal Errors and unaccountable Follies and amend As for the Parishes of London and Westminster being supplied with them I think it to be no Blessing but a Curse and they to be happiest who have least to do with them I perswade my self that the Church-Wardens of Parishes will never trouble their Heads with their Fooleries whose Charities are of no more worth than a Scotch-Mist which if a Man walks long in it will do him such a mischief as to wet him to the Skin XXIV Blew-Book The Medicines are delivered out of the College at the Intrinsick Value that is at the first Cost for making no advantage of them no more is required of the Publick then what will just support the Stock without which it would necessarily sink page 18. Salmon A learned Discourse and just worth nothing as if every body did not know that if a Man sells his Commodity for less than it stands him in all Costs and Charges being considered he must be a looser by it and his Fund or Stock must waste and at length come to nothing Now let us consider besides the first Costs of the Drugs there is Laboratory-room Shoproom Vse of Vtensils waste in making up spoiling by long keeping Expences Servants Wages Attendance and a many other things which if they should not be added to the Prime or first Cost of the Drugs the Fund or Stock would in time infallibly be lost or sunk and therefore you must really conclude that all the Items in Sect. XX. aforegoing are to be accounted for here The next thing which I am to take notice of is That they are delivered out of the College but this they speak by a kind of Rhetorical Figure called Auxesis wherein they magnify a thing and make it greater than truly it is for they deliver their Slip-slops out of a SHOP as all Apothecaries do but they thought College sounded greater and lookt more magnificent than the mechanick and degrading Term of a SHOP as counting themselves something above it tho' at the same time they can submissively and meanly submit to any thing that they think a Penny is to be gotten by But if they should make you believe that they will afford their stuff at the simple prime Cost of the Drugs that is so vain a thing that nothing can be more foolish to be spoken for that they tell you they must sell their Matters at such a price as that their Stock may not sink by it And yet they have so craftily worded their Discourse that at first sight a Man would really believe that they spoke as they meant and intended and that there was nothing else to be understood by Intrinsick Value but the prime or first Costs of the Drugs whereas upon viewing the thing and throughly scanning their words there is nothing that they less intend and so a Cheat is put by Lump or whole Sale upon the Understanding What ways have Men to sham the World withal and what may not they do who think that they have Authority to say and do what they please be it right or wrong good or bad How can any Man be safe to deal with such Persons who seldom or never speak as they mean nor mean as they speak Unless you know before-hand that you must understand them by the Contraries and always take them in the opposite sense at least in a sense different from what their words signify XXV Blew-Book The Benefit the Publick does and may reap thereby it is fifteen Shilligs in the Pound that being here afforded for five Shillings for which the Apothecaries exact Twenty Shillings a great Relief to indigent People poor Families and Gentlemen's Servants page 18 19. Salmon What Benefit the Publick may receive by this their empty Charity I suppose will be invisible like to Ghosts which haunt the Air not to be seen of any but such as are furnished with Second Sights they say it is Fifteen Shillings in the Pound viz. That they will afford that for Five Shillings which the Apothecaries take Twenty Shillings for But 't is probable the Blew-Book-men may have a Dispensation for Lying and so no heed is to be taken to them Can any Body believe it is possible that those well-prepared Medicines which an Apothecary takes Twenty Shillings for that the same should be sold at a Quack-SHOP for Five Shillings would not any one in his senses believe that they must be either defective in the Ingredients or spoiled in the making But after all how shall we know that they speak Truth and that the same Medicaments full as good and as exactly and well prepared they will sell so much below the Price I assure you he must have a great Faith that can believe such an incredible assertion from Men of their Morals without having any other Assurance than their bare word or say-so for it They tell us it will be a great Relief to indigent People poor Families and Gentlemens Servants But how or wherein I nor any Body else knows Oh they will give them their Advice or Prescription Gratis page 17. 'T is so in words but it is to be supposed that tho' they pay nothing down for it that they have the Cunning to put it into the Intrinsick Value because he that writes the Bill or signs it does also put the Price at the bottom of it and the Servants are responsible to the Curators for the Price writ upon every Bill page 17 18. This is Proof enough with a Vengeance that they make their own Markets even as they please themselves and gives a great Umbrage that all the Items aforementioned at Sect. XX. are true But suppose for Argument-sake they should do this Gratis what does it all amount to to those poor People who have no Money to pay them their Market Price for it Why it amounts to nothing for if they have no Money or if they have some Money and not the full Price they must certainly go without it Now what this Invisible Charity is who can tell I know not who it can be of Service to but such as take nothing and live upon the Air. But after all I suppose they did this to Ape me because I give to the Poor Gratis so would they but herein they and I differ I give to all poor People not only my advice Gratis but proper Remedies or Medicines for the Cure of their Distempers freely and that without Money or Price Whereas they only pretend to give their advice to the Poor for nothing which is as much as nothing for it is that which costs them nothing and which I very much fear is worth nothing so that from their own words it is manifest that tho' they seem to follow me yet they do it not the half way their Charity could not carry them through Stitch with the pious Design But when all shall be computed considering the goodness

of the Rich and good reason too because those are the only Persons which can feed them liberally and give them often and large Fees and therefore in Gratitude tho' they be otherwise ill-natured Fellows enough they ought to wish them well However this they prudently leave to the wisdom of the Parliament and so do I and all those good People whom they have basely Abused and Persecuted against all Law Justice and Right And hope the Parliament will look into the Matter and resolve us by their Votes and a peculiar Act for that purpose that all Forms of Acts of Parliament not having the Royal Assent shall be holden for no Law and indeed it ought to be accounted no less than high Treason to judge any Subject of England by any Form of an Act not ratified by the Royal Power of some King or Queen of England for by such Practises they that so judge assume the Royal Power of making Laws subvert Justice and overturn the very Foundations of our Government And I doubt not but when the Parliament shall look into this matter and find this Form of an Act without the Royal Assent annexed to it as I have said that they will take care likewise that all Judgments formerly past by virtue thereof may be reverst and where Execution has been made that the Blew-Book-Fellows may be made to refund or repay to those Persons so abused if alive or to their Heirs Executors or Administrators the whole value so taken away with the Interest thereof for so many years as they have unjustly kept it and that a compleat Satisfaction may be made to those Persons to the utmost penny of their Damages XIX Blew-Book We give here a short account of the Charitable Method which the College of Physicians after several years Consideration has lately thought of and used to provide the poor with Medicines cheaper than has hitherto been ever practised in any Country page 13. Salmon Here 's brags of Charity indeed but what does it amount to Truly only to this that if poor People have any Money they may have Medicines of them for it but if they have no Money positively they must go without and this without any Circumlocution is the downright sense of the matter Now if the Blew-Book-men can thus impudently interlope into the Apothecaries Trade by dispensing the Medicaments they prescribe endeavouring their Ruine and Undoing Why should it not be as just for the Apothecaries to study the Art of Prescription and turn Doctors and so Prescribe their own Medicines which they dispense I think it is no sin in the Apothecaries to make the Case as broad as the Doctors have made it long But they will tell you that the Poor shall have Medicines cheaper than 〈◊〉 … therto been ever prastised in any Country How shall I or any poor Body know that Why they tell you so and you are bound in Conscience to believe them Now I cannot tell that for tho' it may be possible to be true yet it is not probable that it is true and the reason I have for it is this that I have taken them in so many Lies and manifest Falsities in this Book which I my self know to be so that I cannot tell when to believe them and I cannot help it for my Life the believing all they say to be false unless I know it my self before-hand to be true and indeed this is that which common Lyars get by such assiduous telling of Lies that no Body can believe them when they speak Truth But they say this Method after many years Consideration they have lately thought of so it seems they have been but lately thinking of it yet it has been many years under their Consideration All that long time they thought nothing at all of it they are the only Men in the World then that I know of that can consider with themselves for many years without thinking of the matter they consider of This is a Bull all over what pity is it that Men of their Stations should be able to write no better English XX. Blew-Book The President Censors and Majority of the Members c. pitying the miserable Condition poor Patients were in for want of Remedies agreed that Medicines should be prepared at the College and given at the Poor at the prime Cost p. 14. To relieve the Poor for ever with Medicines at the Intrinsick Value page 15. Salmon Here 's a great Cry and a little Wool as the Devil said when he shore his Hogs Here is a wonderful pitying the Poor for want of Remedies and therefore they say that Medicines shall be prepared and given to the prime Cost and this prime Cost they declare to be the intrinsick Value It is an odd thing that such Men as they are cannot write good English without making so many Bulls in it how are their Medicines given to the Poor when they only sell them and will let no Body have them without Money And what does all this noise of Charity amount to but only what I said before viz. that if poor People bring Money with them they may have Medicines but not otherwise But they will give their Advice Gratis Who knows that or what Security have we that they will keep their word and not bring it into their Intrinsick Value And if they should do it what is it worth especially when poor People have not Money by them to buy Bread or other Necessaries Something I spoke to this Head in an Advertisement I gave about the Town and I hear the Blades found fault with it that I begun my Observations about Intrinsick Value with Item and not with Imprimis now the reason of that was because I could do no otherwise that being taken out of the middle of the Account But in this place I care not greatly if I give you the Imprimis which is so much for loosing our certain Practise and trusting to an uncertainty in Degrading our selves by turning Apothecaries out of meer spight and malice to the Trade because we would have six hundred Families be turned out a-doors and sent a Grazing or Begging Item so much for half a Dozen Bottles of Claret after the Company had drunk enough upon Consideration that it ought to be put into the Intrinsick Value for that they were then met about the Concerns of the Business Item so much for debasing the College by turning it into a Mechanick-SHOP against the Honour and Dignity of the Place Item so much for the Price of the Drugs Item so much for Waste in making up Item so much for Laboratory Room Item so much for the Use of the Weights Item so much for the Use of the Scales Item so much for Dispensing the Ingredients Item so much for the Use of the Pestle Item so much for the Use of the Mortar Item so much for Preparing them Item so much for SHOP-room Item so much for Servants Wages Item so much for the Interest of their Money