Historical Sketch of the Progress of Pharmacy in Great Britain

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Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, 1880 - 415 pages
 

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Page 4 - ... every person being the king's subject, having knowledge and experience of the nature of herbs, roots, and waters, or of the operation of the same, by speculation or practice...
Page 378 - Act have carried on in Great Britain the Business of a Chemist and Druggist, in the keeping of open Shop for the compounding of the Prescriptions of duly qualified Medical Practitioners...
Page 268 - It was resolved, — That, in the opinion of this Committee, it is desirable that...
Page 369 - WHEREAS it is expedient for the safety of the public that persons keeping open shop for the retailing, dispensing, or compounding of poisons, and persons known as chemists and druggists, should possess a competent practical knowledge of their business...
Page 373 - Peace and others that the Persons therein specified are registered according to the Provisions of this Act ; and the Absence of the Name of any Person from such Copy shall be Evidence until the contrary be made to appear, that such Person is not registered according to the Provisions of this Act...
Page 370 - Act, and the Council of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (herein-after referred to as the Pharmaceutical Society) may from Time to Time, by Resolution, declare that any Article in such Resolution named ought to be deemed a Poison within the Meaning of this Act...
Page 370 - Chemists, hereinafter described as the Pharmacy Act, should be amended : be it enacted, by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by authority of the same, as follows : 1.
Page 373 - Council to have been fraudulently or incorrectly made may be erased from or amended in the Register by Order in Writing of such Council.
Page 298 - And be it enacted, that if any person shall from and after the passing of this act cruelly beat, ill-treat, over-drive, abuse, or torture, or cause or procure to be cruelly beaten, ill-treated, over-driven, abused, or tortured, any animal, every such offender shall for every such offence forfeit and pay a penalty not exceeding five pounds.
Page 2 - That no person within the city of London, nor within seven miles of the same, take upon him to exercise and occupy as a Physician or Surgeon, except he be first examined, approved, and admitted by the Bishop of London, or by the Dean of St. Paul's, for the time being, calling to him or them four Doctors of Physic, and for Surgery, other expert persons in that faculty...

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