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      marked like this.    
  •       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 theCollege of Physicians, and of the Royal Society.
——Fingunt se Medicos omnes, Idiota, Sacerdos,Nutrix, & Tonsor, Pharmacopæus, Anus.
The Second Edition more correct.
LONDON,
Printed for James Allestry, Printer to the RoyalSociety, at the Rose and Crown in St.Paul's Church-Yard, 1670.
A Short View of the Frauds and Abuses committedby Apothecaries, as well in Relation toPatients, as Physicians; and of the only remedythereof by Physicians making their ownMedicines.
Doubtless it will seem strange to most men,that after 30 years not unsuccessful practicein this great City, I should now atlast forbear sending my Bills to the Apothecaries,knowing that hereby a wholeCompany of men interested in the World (who bytheir number, noise, and tricks, may be able to decryany Physician) will become my implacable adversaries,and by their private whispers of untrue tales, will endeavourto their utmost, either to keep me from anynew, or shuffle me out of my fixed imployment. Butnot fearing the utmost their malice can invent, or proclaim;I shall publickly assert what I privately practice,preferring the publick good, and the honour ofmy profession before my own private profit. And althoughI have had some experience what theirgroundless anger can do, when they some years sinceproclaimed me in their publick Hall their Enemy, foracting the College Interest, and of late for saving myPatients lives and purses, by dispencing gratis my Medicines.Yet I hope no indifferent person, when heknows that I have thus long slighted their weak endeavours,will                         
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