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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    frary either to the letter or the spirit of the Act of Parliament. That he might complain to the Court of Assistants if he pleased ; but that he must recol- lect the doubly responsible and delicate situation he and the other gentlemen, who \Tere Members of both Courts, had placed themselves in: they were bound by an oath not to reveal the secrets of the Court of Assistants, and they were bound by their word and honour, and the rules of the Court of Examiners, not to reveal their proceedings. How then could he represent what was passing in that Court in another place, and not be dishonoured ? The present was a iit opportunity for telling him, and the other gentle- men who were Members of both Courts, that the two situations were incompatible, for no man could faith- fully serve two masters; that no one who was a Member of the one Court ought to belong to the other ; and that, no doubt, there would be frequent opportunities when they would all feel the truth of this remark. The Member prudently declined his threatened proceeding. On the same day, Oct. 3, that the Letter [No. VII.] was sent to the Court of Assistants, 1 in- formed the Court of Examiners that, although I had been the person chiefly instrumental in framing the rules by which it was regulated, yet I confessed I had wilfully broken them ; a step which nothing else would justify, but the determination that the Court had manifested to compel me to do an act which my reason told me was as contrary to the law of the land, as it was to the duty I owed the Society, and to the whole body of Apothecaries:—I had sent a Letter that morning, detailing the facts which had occurred, relative to the examination of the Druggist, and appealing to the Court of Assistants, whence the authority of the Court of Examiners emanated, for advice: but that, as I scorned to do any thing covertly, I begged leave to inform the Court of what I had done, and to lay upon the table an exact copy of that Letter for its information.
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