8. To have his morters, stilles, pottes, filters, glasses, and boxes cleane and sweete.
12. That he neither increase nor diminish the physician’s bill (prescription), nor keepe it for his own use.
14. That he peruse often his wares, that they corrupt not.
15. That he put not in quid pro quo (i. e., substitute one drug for another.) (Would not this be excellent advice to some of the apothecaries of the present day?)
16. That he meddle only in his vocation.
18. That he delight to reade Nicolaus Mynepsus, and a few other ancient authors.
19. That he remember his office is only ye physician’s cooke.
20. That he use true waights and measures.
21. That he be not covetous or crafty, seeking his own lucre before other men’s help and comfort.”
We may see the wisdom evinced by the author of the above advice, especially in articles Nos. 2, 12, and 21, when we know of a druggist’s clerk of modern times, who, having stolen the physician’s prescriptions intrusted to his care, started out on borrowed capital, and, putting them up as his own wonderful discoveries, advertised them extensively, until his remedies, for all diseases which flesh is heir to, are now sold throughout the entire universe!