A statement of circumstances connected with the Apothecaries' Act, and its administration / by George Man Burrows.

  • George Man Burrows
Date:
1817
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Credit: A statement of circumstances connected with the Apothecaries' Act, and its administration / by George Man Burrows. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    sliould not be pleaded by them as an excuse for not applying* to Parliament to amend it; therefore, as I bad been requested to commit my objections to the Act to paper, I sent [No. IV.]. No answer was returned to these observational or the letter. But, at the next Meeting of the* Court of Examiners, a -written communication, dated March 29th, was received from the Court of Assistants, desiring that all communications re* specting the Act be sent to the revived Committee .lipon the Bill, i. e. were to be sent to the person who had opposed and prevented any movement re* specting the Act; for it was the Chairman who was ipso facto the revived Committee. It fortunately happened that the Navy and Army Surgeons had, upon discovering the manner in which the Apothecary's Act affected them, memorialized the Secretary at War, Lord Palmerston. A com- I muuication consequently took place between Lord Palmerston and the Society, which ended by the Noble Secretary intimating that he would bring a Bill into Parliament immediately, at the public expense, to amend the Act as far as it affected the Medical Officers of the Army and Navy ; at the same time 1 leave was granted, that the Society might embrace j that opportunity of altering and amending other parts j of the Act. I ^ It was now clear enough what were the real objec- tions to the Society's applying to Parliament. It was announced that the object would be accomplished at the public expense : it instantly became, therefore, ► ueither preniature nor inexpedient. I was imme- \ diately summoned to meet the revived Committee; ] my paper of the 29th of March was produced, and i every point I had stated was discussed ; and some \ were adopted, while others upon consideration were 3 deemed unnecessary. However, no Bill was intro- } duced; and I found, upon inquiry of Lord Palmerston, I that his intention was deferred till the present Session! f The Army Medical Board had also warmly interested
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