Produced by Paul Murray, Richard Cohen and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr. [Transcriber's Note: + Hyphens splitting words across lines have been removed. + Original spellings have generally been retained, but the Errata from the Second Edition (at the end), and a mistake in the Errata (!) have been corrected silently. The original text can be found in the HTML version. + The Latin epigraph translates as: "They all represent themselves as Doctors--The Uneducated, The Priest, The Nurse, and The Barber, The _Apothecary_, The Old Woman." ] Imprimatur, Novemb. 13. 1669. SAM. PARKER. 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. BY CHRISTOPHER MERRETT Dr. in Physic, Fellow of the College of Physicians, and of the Royal Society. ----Fingunt se Medicos omnes, Idiota, Sacerdos, Nutrix, & Tonsor, _Pharmacopæus_, Anus. The Second Edition more correct. LONDON, Printed for James Allestry, Printer to the Royal Society, at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1670 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.