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Title:  A Short View of the Frauds and Abuses Committed by Apothecaries
       As well in Relation to Patients, as Physicians:  And Of the
       only Remedy thereof by Physicians making their own
       Medicines.

Author:  Christopher Merrett

Release Date:  May 27, 2005 [EBook #15910]

Language:  English

Character set encoding:  ASCII

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[Transcriber’s Note: 

+ Hyphens splitting words across lines have been removed.

+ Original spellings have generally been retained, but
  the Errata from the Second Edition (at the end), and
  a mistake in the Errata (!) have been corrected
  silently.  The original text can be found in the HTML
  version.

+ The Latin epigraph translates as:  “They all represent
  themselves as Doctors—­The Uneducated, The Priest,
  The Nurse, and The Barber, The Apothecary, The Old Woman.”
]

Imprimatur,
Novemb. 13.
1669. 
Sam.  Parker.

A
short view
of the
frauds, and abuses
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 Merrett Dr. in Physic, Fellow of the College of
Physicians, and of the Royal Society.

——­Fingunt se Medicos omnes, Idiota, Sacerdos, Nutrix, &
Tonsor, Pharmacopaeus, Anus.

The Second Edition more correct.

London,
Printed for James Allestry, Printer to the Royal Society, at the Rose
and Crown in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1670

A Short View of the Frauds and Abuses committed by Apothecaries, as well in Relation to Patients, as Physicians; and of the only remedy thereof by Physicians making their own Medicines.

Doubtless it will seem strange to most men, that after 30 years not unsuccessful practice in this great City, I should now at last forbear sending my Bills to the