156 aur PHYSICIAN, 
But how “often >» ae faithful physician been 
find 
lent worse, ee ped 
h ds 
being kept int 
should fail! ere is a difference between the 
whole of a thing and a half; especially when 
the patient lies poised between time and eter- 
nity. Or the doctor orders a dose of calomel, — 
and the c 
Amt nrepnar 
ee (horrible ce d.) 
to ma e his medic icines hold out well, 
he som 
ae harmless aattanie For, after all, pa- 
tients are not so often billed!) by abundant, as 
Led insufficient doses. Some apothecaries, be- 
different judges of the quality of medicine 
of inferior strength, or such as have 
already been adulterated. These are a few only 
of the evils which result to the community either 
m the ignorance or design of apothecaries.” 
**T would not have touched this subject had 
_ Enot been fully convinced that it needed inves- 
tigation rm in it is deeply and indispen- 
se i nly he 
ic roused ‘ch we subject, 
ing will it work. jts way r : 
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