Gold Not Gold

Sat.2.63.

He grants pardon to the crows, while the censor pursues the doves.
Unless the Censure judges equally of every census, sex, knight, and foot-soldier, whoever is in any order within the medical tribe, the Censure is not equal. But it would be equal if the sentence stood; which is abrogated by the more powerful, as the gold of Antony is "disrupted" and corrupted by quicksilver and stronger waters. But because there is mention here of order (which is the bond, the nerve, and the glory of the World, the Kingdom, and of all Commonwealths—for things that are not ordered cannot be adorned), let Your Majesty carry and confirm this order, lest the architectural order of Physicians, the polychrest many-use order of Surgeons, or the honest, learned, and rich order of London Apothecaries be confused, or disturbed by invading Chemists.

Gal.met.med l.6.c.vlt. Brun. Seid. mor.inc.p.56. 53. Riol.in Quer p.14.

Let not one and the same man act as Physician, Surgeon, and Apothecary; because of the dangers that are feared from it. Let the Surgeon heal the exterior with his hand: Let the Apothecary, as the craftsman, administer under the oath of the Physician. If Chemists wish, and are able, to act as Apothecaries, let them be reduced to the order of those men. We know Apothecaries who know the same things, and more, than the Chemists. But every order is inverted, the Censure is overturned, and Physicians, Surgeons, and Apothecaries are all removed at once if the Universal Medicine of one Antony prevails; which is everything to everyone. But lest it prevail (which is nothing, for any thing), and because the College has entrusted to me, who am nearly the least, this province of pursuing Antony—not with a wandering, but with a pressing foot, step by step—and lest the errors of Antony, like poisons, creep into the public fountains, it asks Your Majesty most humbly that a Senatusconsultum decree of the senate, similar to the Parisian one, be promulgated in London: that no one in London may publish anything about Medicine that has not been approved by the College of Physicians: and that what has indeed been approved should be confirmed by royal privilege for the printers. And these, and the rest, may Your Majesty deign to look upon with that eye and mind with which you are accustomed to judge refuted errors; from your most devoted and sworn servant