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Tax, medicines and the lawfrom quack...

Stebbings, Chantal.

Tax, medicines and the lawfrom quackery to pharmacy /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Tax, medicines and the lawChantal Stebbings.
Reminder of title:	from quackery to pharmacy /
Author:	Stebbings, Chantal.
Published:	Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2018.
Description:	xv, 240 p. :digital ;24 cm.
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Oct 2017).
Subject:	PharmacologyHistory.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139178990
ISBN:	9781139178990$q(electronic bk.)

Tax, medicines and the lawfrom quackery to pharmacy /
Stebbings, Chantal.

Tax, medicines and the lawfrom quackery to pharmacy /[electronic resource] :Chantal Stebbings. - Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2018. - xv, 240 p. :digital ;24 cm.

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Oct 2017).

Proprietary medicines and the fiscal state -- The medicine stamp duty and the authority of law -- The tax and the profession of pharmacy -- The tax and the integrity of medicines -- The demise of the tax.

In 1783, a stamp duty was imposed on proprietary or 'quack' medicines. These largely useless but often dangerous remedies were immensely popular. The tax, which lasted until 1941, was imposed to raise revenue. It failed in its incidental regulatory purpose, had a negative effect in that the stamp was perceived as a guarantee of quality, and had a positive effect in encouraging disclosure of the formula. The book explains the considerable impact the tax had on chemists and druggists - how it led to an improvement in professional status, but undermined it by reinforcing their reputations as traders. The legislation imposing the tax was complex, ambiguous and never reformed. The tax authorities had to administer it, and executive practice came to dominate it. A minor, specialised, low-yield tax is shown to be of real significance in the pharmaceutical context, and of exceptional importance as a model revealing the wider impact of tax law and administration.

ISBN: 9781139178990$q(electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

651119
Pharmacology
--History.

LC Class. No.: RM41 / .S74 2018

Dewey Class. No.: 615.109

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