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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 af