History of the proceedings of the committee appointed by the general meeting of apothecaries, chemists, and druggists in London, for the purpose of obtaining relief from the hardships imposed on the dealers in medicine, by certain clauses and provisions contained in the new Medicine Act, passed June 3, 1802, together with a view of the Act, as it now stands, in its ameliorated state; to which are added the substance of every clause in the acts of June 3 1802, and July 4 1803 and the clauses of both these Acts, collated ... consolidated and explained ... With explanatory notes and observations / [William Chamberlaine].

Chamberlaine, William, 1749-

Date:: 1804

Credit: History of the proceedings of the committee appointed by the general meeting of apothecaries, chemists, and druggists in London, for the purpose of obtaining relief from the hardships imposed on the dealers in medicine, by certain clauses and provisions contained in the new Medicine Act, passed June 3, 1802, together with a view of the Act, as it now stands, in its ameliorated state; to which are added the substance of every clause in the acts of June 3 1802, and July 4 1803 and the clauses of both these Acts, collated ... consolidated and explained ... With explanatory notes and observations / [William Chamberlaine]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[ 1-7 ] within ten days return the fame to the perfon from whom fuch articles were received, or -within the fame j'pace of time fend information to the Commijfioner s at Somerset Place, and depofit fuch unftamped articles with the nqareft Distributors of Jlampsy Jhall forfeit twenty pounds. The third claufe of the Amendment, being con-, nefted with the foregoing, comes properly under qonfideration in this place. By the kindnefs of the Chancellor of the Exche- quer, the Committee were favoured with a copy of the new aft for amending the one fo much complain- ed of, and we were indulged with fourteen days no- tice to ftate our objeftions to any parts of it. There never was an inftance where the pro- priety of confulting perlons, concerned in any par- ticular trade or calling, before laws are made for them, was more evident, than in the Medicine Adi. That of 1802 was the third, and ftill mqre ex- ceptionable than the two former; which would not have been the Ga>fe, had fome refpeftable perfons in the drug trade, aided by one or two well-informed apothecaries, been called into confultation, in the firft inftance, t© contribute their advice and abilities in drawing a fair line between the preparations of the regular praftitioner and the pretended arcana of char- latans and noftrum-mongers. Peculiarly fortunate was it for the gentlemen in the drug trade, who are in the habit of fending very large confignments of patent and proprietary medicines to different parts ot the kingdom, and of the world, that the Committee d were

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