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Said college may frame a code of drugs or simple medicines,
with rules for preparing them for physick and chirurgery,
and the vessels and utensils, and materials of which composed,
and measures, weights and scales, by which sold,
to be observed by apothecaries, &c.
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>XI. And for the better ascertaining the nature and qualities, and the doses, and uses, of all drugs, simple and compound medicines, and chemical preparations, be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it may be lawful for the said president, censors, and fellows of the college of physicians for the time being, to frame and publish a code or pharmacopœia, containing a catalogue of such drugs or simple medicines, as they shall judge necessary for the prescriptions or uses of physicians and chirurgeons, together with forms and rules for preparing and compounding the same chemically and galenically, as they shall judge fit and necessary, for the practice of physick and chirurgery, directing not only the form and manner, but the various vessels and other utensils, and the materials of which such vessels or utensils shall be respectively made or composed, as also the measures, weights, and scales, by which all such medicinal drugs, preparations, and compositions shall be dispensed and sold; which said code or pharmacopœia shall be followed and observed by all and every apothecary, chemist, druggist, and other person or persons, who now do or hereafter shall prepare, administer, sell, expose to sale, or keep for that purpose, any kind of drug, simple or compound medicine, or chemical or other medicinal preparation whatsoever, throughout this kingdom.
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