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Fourthly, In such cases of surgery as require consultation, or the use of medicines, I am willing to attend, to prescribe, consult, or advise; but not to perform any operation myself, or dress any wound.
In regard to the apothecary and surgeon.
It may be proper here to acquaint the public, that, for the better carrying of this plan into execution, Mr. David Leighton, a gentleman of abilities and integrity, educated in Great-Britain both in pharmacy and surgery, has accompanied me hither. To him I send to make up my prescriptions. But patients are allowed to choose any other apothecary to put up their medicines, or what surgeon they please for the operative part. What I except from them is a proper compensation for my advice and attendance as a physician. The medicines and operations are to be considered as a distinct and separate charge. Mr. Leighton has imported a large assortment of medicines, in which no expence has been spared to have every thing of the best in its kind. They have been prepared with particular care by Messrs Silvanus and Timothy Bevan, Druggists in London, whose known skill and reputation in that business are too well established, both in Great-Britain and America, to need further recommendation.
