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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50701	A short view of the fravds, and abvses committed by apothecaries, as well in relation to patients, as physicians, and of the only remedy thereof by physicians making their own medicines by Christopher Merret ...	Merret, Christopher, 1614-1695.	1670 (1670)	Wing M1844; ESTC R650	40,249	81

as Apothecaries and that our Charter was compiled by some and perused and approved by others the most eminent Lawyers in England for Worth and Place and yet none of these could find any thing in it either Illegal Tyrannical or unfit to be desired of the Parliament Nay many mis-informed Members being rightly instructed in the true state of the matter have acknowledged the justice of it And was no more then King James by his Letters Patents dated the 18th of October in the 15th year of his Reign granted to the said College near about the same time the Apothecaries Charter was granted and being almost nothing else but a supply of what was short in their former Grants viz. That whereas their Charter granted by King Henry the Eighth gave power to punish offenders in the practice of Physic and because there was no power given to summon nor penalty imposed for non-appearance of such offenders therefore by their non-appearance the said power of the Censors was eluded for no such offenders would appear before them and consequently no punishment could be inflicted on them according to the true meaning of the said Act. Now this Charter so much declaimed against prayed only a supply of this defect and also better and more necessary ways and means without which such and all other offenders against the lives and healths of his Majesties Subjects could not be discovered and they had reason not to doubt a grant of the said power since by the said Charter a power was granted them to imprison offenders whom the Keepers of the Prisons would not receive because no command nor penalty was imposed on them for not receiving such offenders sent by the Censors a thing ridiculous to our present Lawyers however this defect was supplyed by an Act in the first of Queen Mary Now whereas since the making of the said Acts and Powers granted to the College several other Trades besides the Apothecaries relating to Physic being then all Members of the Grocers Company viz. Druggists Chymists Sellers of Strong-waters and Oyls have arose distinct from each others and many abuses have been and are committed in each of them as they all confess The said Charter prays for the publick good only there being the same reason of all they might have the same power of Surveying them also as they have of the Apothecaries which most of the Judicious and sober of the said Companies as well in relation to their own private profit and also the publick by having all Medicines good did not oppose but liked well of Nay there was nothing in the said Charter but what was judged good by all or most of the Judges of England several times convened by Order of the King and his Council to deliver their opinions concerning some Quaeries which comprised the main of what was desired and petitioned for by the College of this present Parliament But before the Committee could make report to the House the Parliament was adjourned whereupon Apothecaries falsly gave out and made people believe our Charter was taken from us And in this transaction before the Committee one Cocket an Apothecary exhibited in the name of the Chymists such a Scandalous Libel as the Committee would not suffer to be read drawn as some conceive by the assistance and countenance if not contrivance of his Company Lastly The Company of the Apothecaries are bound by their Charter to bring their Servants before they make them Free to be examined by the Censors of our College and to have their approbation of their fitness to exercise their Art and set up their Trade Now that they have herein neglected their duty and consequently may be dis-franchised and lose their Freedoms for this omission 't is manifest not only by the vapours of some of them to some members of our Body that they never underwent this examination but also by comparing of our Register wherein are recorded the names of all such as have been examined with theirs if they keep any for this purpose Sure I am that in two years together when I was Censor very few if any did appear to their examination whereas yearly a very great number set up their Trades Nay since the firing of London not one Apothecaries Servant hath been examined by the Censors for more then these three Years last past in which time perhaps no less then 100 have been made free by the Company Before our presenting this Charter to the Parliament they would admit no Arbitrators betwixt our Corporation and Theirs not contenting themselves with their Charter lately granted in King James's Reign and that by the procurement of some of our College for these unthankful persons For they would not refer themselves as the Chirurgeons without many words or dispute did to the most upright and most knowing Sir Orlando Bridgeman then Lord Chief Justice and now Lord Keeper for a clause to be by him drawn in order to preserve their immunities and Charter which they refused fearing belike he would exclude them from the Practice of Physic which the Law hath already done and which is all they could doubt of but the Corporation of Chirurgeons did acquiesce in the clause drawn by the said Lord Chief Justice and never appeared before the Committee against the said Charter Their increasing dis-respect and undervaluing the College appears in this that of late years they place our Censors invited to their new Masters Dinner at their second Table whereas always heretofore they were seated at the first Table next to the Master of the Company And to hinder the building of a New College a●… the Contribution of the Honorary Fellows thereunt● they tell them that we deceived them in their adm●…on and never intend the building of a New College though a large contribution hath been made and ground purchased in order thereunto by the Members of their Corporation And their further design appears in their great triumphing and rejoycing when any illiterate person hath gained any reputation for a Cure performed especially where Physicians have been concerned though the Patients neglect or obstinateness have been the sole cause of this non-performance and by their continued detraction from Physicians and applauding themselves hoping by the former that people will think such Mountebanks able to do better Cures then learned Physicians and then they can easily insinuate themselves superior to such Mountebanks and consequently to Physicians By the latter they seek to depress and level us to themselves being conscious they can never rise to that worth and ability required in a Physician Another manifest sign of their endeavour to usurp our Practice is their absurd calling the sick their Patients for 't is most certain that in all reason and language the Physician and Patient only have relation to each other but not to the Apothecary who is but a Tradesman and manual Operator Now a Tradesman and his Customer or Chapman are Relatives each to other but those Apothecaries who intrude themselves and usurp