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 Secondly, They carry a Medicine appointed for one sick person to another.

Thirdly, They often neglect the sending of Medicines in due time, especially such as have no Servants; or but raw ones, when the Master is out of Town, or upon long visits.

Having now done with the Apothecaries as they relate principally to the sick, I shall in the next place speak of them, as they relate to Physicians, and that either to the profession in general, or to the particular practisers of it.

As to the Physicians in general, they endeavour to extirpate them, and some have been so bold to say, they hope in few years to see never a Physician in London, and to profess they will scramble with them for practice. And that this hath been and is their intention, the following particulars will clearly demonstrate.

First, They have always endeavoured and aimed at the depression and ruine of the College of Physicians; the only Corporation of that Art in England, considering rightly, that the depression of the College is their interest and rise, and that the total subversion of it will make them absolute Masters in Physic, and Physicians their Servants. In Order hereunto they have constantly, both publickly and privately opposed the College in whatsoever hath been offered to setle the liberty of practice on them, their only priviledg and subsistence, though they have been offered all they could desire for the security of: their Trade. and legal employment, and far beyond whatsoever any Corporation of Apothecaries in all, or in any forreign part Rh