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During the Great Plague of 1665, in the absence of most of the licensed physicians, many ignorant apothecaries in London took upon themselves ‘the whole practice of Physick’. And in the chaotic conditions which obtained after the Plague and the Great Fire of 1666, the apothecaries were able not only to consolidate but even to extend their medical practices. The physicians, both inside and out of the Royal College of Physicians, launched a literary counter-attack, warning their patients of the dangers of unlicensed medical practice and urging physicians in retaliation to resume making their own medicines, a practice which had only recently been abandoned. The longest and most interesting of these is an octavo volume entitled A Discourse, Wherein The Interest of the Patient in Reference to Physick and Physicians is soberly debated, Many Abuses of the Apothecaries in the Preparing their Medicines are detected, and Their Unfitness for Practice Discovered. Together with The Reasons and Advantages of Physicians preparing their own Medicines. London, Printed for C.R. MDCLXIX

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