| Description Of Item | From the papers of Richard Poole. Each item is numbered and the contents list at the front relates to each number. The transcripts are: two acts anent apothecaries simple, 1678; apothecaries' approbation of the erection of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 1681; answers to the objections given to the Lords against the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, c1681; letters supporting the college, 1682; petition of the physicians of Montrose against the surgeons' signature, 1682; visiting apothecaries shops, 1684; how long a licentiate should study before being licensed, 1685; minutes of the fraternities of apothecaries, 1686; remarks as to proposals by surgeon apothecaries respecting pharmacy; petition of surgeon apothecaries to the Lord Provost; notes for a memorial by the College to the Town Council; proposal by the College to the universities of Scotland, c1705; letters to the Lord Chancellor and Lord Melfort petitioning for the right of the College to refuse Scots graduates except upon examination, 1686; warrant granting right to examine, 1686; proposal on the difference between the physicians and the surgeons, 1687; commission to Dr Dickson to adjust the ratification in Parliament by the surgeons in favour of the physicians; the surgeons' demands; answers to the petition of the indulged surgeon-apothecaries; declaration of the apothecaries, 1707; overture of an act concerning surgeons and apothecaries, 1707; papers concerning James Muirhead; memorial to the Earl of Leven relative to the overture by the surgeons; memoranda for physicians' lawyers in the case of James Nisbit; formation of a committee of surgeon apothecaries for regulating pharmacy and an invitation to physicians to join, 1723; information for Dr Stevenson in the controversy with Dr Trotter; queries and answers on the Dispensary erected by the College, 1709; abstract of laws of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh drawn up from an old sederunt book, 1681-4; memorial concerning the present state of the laws of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, c1769; and response to a libel by Dr Eccles, 1755. |