. Doctors and patients; or, Anecdotes of the medical world and curiosities of medicine. /. The Apothecaries Company. 117 dispense medicines; but they were soon checked by theApothecaries Company, whose Court of Examiners have, fromtime to time, greatly improved the standard of the medicaleducation requisite to obtain the diploma for practice as anapothecary. Thomas Gray, the apothecary, used on every occasion whenyou complained of a disorder, to reply with much solemnity, Humph ! it is very extraordinary, and yet it is very curious phrase never happened to have common sense init bu
. Doctors and patients; or, Anecdotes of the medical world and curiosities of medicine. /. The Apothecaries Company. 117 dispense medicines; but they were soon checked by theApothecaries Company, whose Court of Examiners have, fromtime to time, greatly improved the standard of the medicaleducation requisite to obtain the diploma for practice as anapothecary. Thomas Gray, the apothecary, used on every occasion whenyou complained of a disorder, to reply with much solemnity, Humph ! it is very extraordinary, and yet it is very curious phrase never happened to have common sense init but on the subject of self-murder, which is very extraordinaryand yet very common.— Walpole. An Olden Apothecary. There is a curious passage in the Autobiography of the lateSir Benjamin Brodie, Bart., describing his student days inLondon at the beginning of the present century. He says :— I attended in a chemists shop, in order that I might gainsome knowledge of the materia mcdica, and the making up ofprescriptions. The shop was at the corner of Little NewportStreet, and the propriet
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