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 at leisuretimes transcribe the History of their practice first and originally taken by the Student.

The Apprentice shall serve the Master in spreading Plaisters, letting Blood in the arme, threading Pease for Issues, whetting Instruments, scraping Lint, sowing together Bandages (which he shal also learne to apply) he shal see dissections, read good Authors of Chirurgery and see the practice of operations made by his Superiours. He shall also see the Apothecaries make all such Plaisters, Unguents, Balsames, &c. (learning to choose and know all the Herbs, Gummes and other Ingredients going into them) as are used in their practice.

The Master Apothecary being a most exquisite Botanist, shall take care of the Garden, that store of all usefull Plants be kept therein, and also that such as are for beauty or rarity be not wanting, he shall give order for all Experiments of Grafting, Transplanting, Meliorating the tasts, smels, &c. of Plants, accelerating of Germination and Maturation in them, conservation of Exoticks so, as in time to make them Domesticks, to try the effect of all Artificial Composts, he shall see that all Herbs, Roots, &c. be gathered in their due seasons, and that all the most proper Courses be used for conserving them, hee shall write of the sensile and evident Qualities of all Drugges, as of their smell, tast, ponderosity, rarity, friability, transparency, colour, hardnesse, &c. omitting such as are not discernable by sense, or deprensible by certaine Experiments, declaring the severall operations, chymicall or Pharmacentical by which these Drugges are usually, or may be best prepared; he shall set down all the Experiments solitary or in consort, that he meeteth with, in the mixing or preparing any of them, as that Camphire, will of it selfe evaporate, Terpentine washed in Rh