Receipts for preparing and compounding the principal medicines made use of by the late Mr Ward. Together with an introduction, etc / [John Page].

  • Page, John, 1699?-1779
Date:
1763
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Credit: Receipts for preparing and compounding the principal medicines made use of by the late Mr Ward. Together with an introduction, etc / [John Page]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( ^9 ) . . pences, will, under certain Limitations, be equally divided between two Charitable Foundations: When all this is, I fay, confidered, no DifiTatisfadlion can, I think, arife upon account of Price. Neither can I fuppofe, that any Prudent or Well-difpofed Per- fon can, or will be inclined to buy thefe Medicines of any New Makers of them, though offered at a lower Price, when he confiders that P’hofe^ who have been long frabiiled in preparing Medicines of this kind, are mod likely to do it in the beft Manner: And that the Neat Profits, accruing from the Sale of thofe made by the two ingenious Chymifts before mentioned, will go towards the Support of two Laudable Undertakings *, the One, intended to pre» ferve young deftitute Girls from Proftitution and Wretchednefs the Other, to retrieve them from Bothd*. I have now explained which of the late Mr JVard^s Medicines I propofe to lay open to the Pu» blick at this Time ; and, why I flop here. The very low Price, at which it is intended they fhall be fold, has been mentioned : But let not this Circumflance, which fhews how little they coft in making, and renders them attainable to the Lower Clajs of Man^ kind, caufe them to be defpiied by the Highefi \ who ought always to remember, that they are of the fame Species with the Lowed; and that Price does not alter the Nature of Things; though 1 have feen it influence Tade, which, like other of our Senfes, is too often governed by Imagination. Nor let this Circumdance of Cheapnefs detra(5l in the lead from the Charadler of my late Friend ; nor add too much to mine: For it ihould be made known and not forgot, that He obtained feme of his Medicines by Experiments*, fome from his Af* fidants in the Chymical Way, whom he paid *, and others. 5 The Afilum. f The Magdakn»