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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    nious opinion I sbould have an answer after llie fol- lowing Court; but within a few days after tlie second Court, tlie Letter was anonymously published in the two other Journals. I therefore, being anticipated^ took no further steps in the business. Mas. This is nothing to the purpose. Sir. A Member. I was going to say so. Master. Anotlicr Memher. But, Sir, you have not come to the point about the Letter. B. Sir ! I have said all I intend to say about the Letter, and if the Court are not satisfied with my explanaticm I shall say no more. (A pause.) Sir, (to the Master) please to accept my resignation of the office of Examiner. [No. XIV.] Gentlemen, Good Morning. I then withdrew. The neglect the Court of Assistants had shewn to my application for advice, to guide me in the execu- tion of an office which they had sworn me to execute '^'^faithfully, impartially, and honestly, according to the best of my skill and knowledge/' and which they would not have refused their most inferior servant; the rumours which the unguarded speech of many of the Members of that Court had oc- casioned ; the form of the summons, which inti- *nated nothing; the delay in serving it; the dis- graceful scene at the last Meeting of the Court of Examiners; in which some of the very individuals composing the present Court were the prominent actors, and miglit possibly, as in fact one, as we have seen, really did again take the lead, were circum- stances when combined, which impressed me with the conviction that there existed a party, determined, at all hazards, to get rid of me; and that they had tutored the Court of Assistants to their views. It was time, therefore^ to think of what was due to niy own character. Nothing but a sense of public duty had kept me so long a Member of the Court of Examiners; and while I felt conscious I could be serviceable to the
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