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An Act for the better viewing, searching and examining of all Drugs, Medicines, Waters, Oils, Compositions, used or to be used for Medicines in all places where the same shall be exposed to sale or kept for that Purpose, within the City of London and Suburbs thereof, or within seven Miles Circuit of the said City.

[This Act has expired.]

18. Geo. 2. c. 15.

An Act for making the Surgeons of London and the Barbers of London two separate and distinct Corporations.

'Whereas in and by certain Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of England, bearing Date the twenty-fourth Day of February in the first Year of the Reign of his then Majesty King Edward the Fourth, after reciting, That the Freemen of the Mystery of Barbers of the City of London, using the Mystery or Faculty of Surgery, had for a long Time, exercised and sustained, and still continued to exercise and sustain great Application and Labour, as well about the curing and healing Wounds, Blows and other Infirmities, as in the letting of Blood, and drawing of Teeth; and that by the Ignorance and Unskilfulness of some of the said Barbers, as well Freemen of the said City as of others, being foreign Surgeons, many misfortunes had happened to divers People, by the