When a dispenser finds an error in a prescription, it is his duty to communicate with the Prescriber privately pointing out the mistake.
"Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology"
W. G. Aitchison Robertson
If a doctor prescribes a drug with the intention of curing or preventing a disease, but that, contrary to expectation and general experience, it causes illness or even death, no responsibility can rest with the Prescriber.
"Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology"
W. G. Aitchison Robertson
But when a Person recovers, there can be no anatomical Search for such Inflammations, or its Effects, the real or imaginary Cure of which may well amaze the Patient, and must greatly redound to the Honour of his Prescriber; so that there may be Policy sometimes in giving a moderate Disease a very bad Name.
"Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health"
Samuel Auguste David Tissot
