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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 ... / [Christopher Merret].

  • Christoph Merrett
Date:
1670
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: 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 ... / [Christopher Merret]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Fifthly*) Add to the former (though perhaps ’tis mi error of ignorance only) that if Rich Simples are pre- feribed they know not* they fetch from the Herb-wo¬ men what they give them, true or falfe$ for many of thefe Women give to very many Plants falfe names 5 Now if the Apothecary be fo careful to confultan Her¬ bal, which few have, and fewer know how to make ufe of,yet they too frequently miftake the thing byreafon of feveral names given to the fame thing,or of one name to feveral things, and many of them confult the com¬ mon Di&ionaries only, which are moft erroneous in the names of natural things 5 infomuchthat in my firft praftice (being curious of thefe particulars) I have found two or three miftakes in one prefcription,a Cata¬ logue of which miftakes, and names ill given, I had colle&ed, but the late fire confumed it,f though many of them my memory hath referved.' Sixthly^ Many of theLondon0and moft of the Cottn- try-Apothecaries, buy of the whole-fale men, who affirm of one another, efpecially of Rich who gain great Eftates in fhorttime, that they cannot fell their Medicines honeftly made at fo low a rate as they do. Seventhly, I fhallneedto fay little of Rich diflilled waters, as difeover themfelves neither to fmell, nor taft,but (hall only recite a known Story of an Apothe¬ cary ^ who chid his man for fending away a Cuftomer that came for Flantan water, telling him there was enough at the Pump. Eighthly, As for Ointmentj\and Plajlers, they are fold by fome at fo low a price, 7tiz. 3 d* per 1. for Ointments> as I have been informed, that ’tis not poffible to make • : them