Their attitude is like that of the mediaeval apothecary who first bled his patient white and then wondered why his patient was anaemic.
Clause 10(7) has been added to provide for a changeover to the use of metric units by pharmacists, whilst leaving doctors free to continue to prescribe in apothecaries' units.
In addition, they were allowed to appoint an experienced surgeon or an apothecary, paying them from the rates, whose duty was to report on the health of those in prison.
And its healers were far from being restricted to the familiar pyramid of physicians, barbersurgeons and apothecaries pictured in traditional medical-history textbooks.
To have it otherwise would be to retreat to the days of the apothecary's apprentice.
The first "demonstrateurs" for chemical-pharmaceutical training were mainly apothecaries who were familiar with the artisanship-technical aspects of the production of medicines.
It is still illegal for any person to act as an apothecary if he is not in fact a certified apothecary.
Candidates could be licensed as physicians, surgeons, accoucheurs, apothecaries or chemists and druggists.
