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<NAME>TCP Staff (Michigan)</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B140637.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<HEAD><HI>REASONS,</HI> Humbly Offered to the Honourable <HI>Hou&s;e of Commons;</HI> by the Ma&s;ter, Wardens, and Society of the Art and My&s;tery of <HI>APOTHECARIES, London:</HI> For the Exempting them from certain Offices and Duties.</HEAD>
<P N="1">I. THE Bu&s;ine&s;s of the <HI>APOTHECARIES</HI> being to Attend the Nobility, Gentry, and Commonalty, re&s;iding within this Populous City, and Places adjacent; (or re&s;orting thither on Publick Occa&s;ions,) under the &s;everal Maladies and Di&s;ea&s;es that daily happen; they cannot Perform the &s;ame an&s;werable to the great Tru&s;t repo&s;ed in them, without a con&s;tant Attendance on their Shops and Profe&s;&s;ion.</P>
<P N="2">II. It is found by Experience, nothing is a greater Hindrance to them therein, than their being obliged to Serve the &s;everal Pari&s;h, Ward, and Leet Offices in the Places where they live; and being continually put on Watches and Juries, which take up a great Part of their Time; whereby it often happens, that by Summons or Office they are obliged to be in one Place, and at the &s;ame time have been &s;ent for, and by the Duty of their Profe&s;&s;ion, ought to Attend the Sick at another Place: the one they could not omit, without Puni&s;h|ment; nor neglect the other, without Prejudice to the Patient.</P>
<P N="3">III. Their Profe&s;&s;ion differs from mo&s;t others; having no Vacation, no time of the Year, nor Hour of the Day or Night free; but are always bound to wait, not knowing when they &s;hall be wanted.</P>
<P N="4">IV. Their Profe&s;&s;ion &s;eems to have as rea&s;onable a Claim, as the other Branches of PHYSICK, to an Exemption from the like Publick Offices; they not only attending the Phy&s;ician at his Pre|&s;cription, but are expected in the Operation, and frequently to &s;it up with their Patients in Dangerous ca&s;es: And were it not for their charitable Vi&s;iting the Poor, many in this City would be lo&s;t.</P>
<P N="5">V. The &s;aid Society, at a great Expence, have done &s;everal things that tend as well to the Honour of the NATION, and Faculty of PHYSICK in general; as for the Benefit and In&s;truction of their own Members in Particular:</P>
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<ITEM>1. <HI>By Making a Publick</HI> ELABORATORY, <HI>for the faithful Preparation of all</HI> Chymical Medicines: <HI>that none might be impo&s;ed on by tho&s;e, who through Lucre or Ignorance, Sell for Good, &s;uch as are Dangerous and De&s;tructive.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>2. <HI>By Making a Publick</HI> PHYSICK-GARDEN, <HI>and Furni&s;hing it with great Variety of</HI> Foreign <HI>and</HI> Dome&s;tick Plants; <HI>equal to if not exceeding mo&s;t others in</HI> EUROPE.</ITEM>
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