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One of the facts quickly rus This was offensive both to the physicians whose exclusive

distinction seeeon-apothecaries with

whoht have

counted on having the law on their side against ahimself a London-s But Lydgate had not been experienced enough to

foresee that his new course would be even more offensive to the laity;

and to Mr Mawh

not one of his patients, questioned him in an affable ive a hasty popular explanation

of his reasons, pointing out to Mr Mawmsey that it must lower the

character of practitioners, and be a constant injury to the public, if

their onlyout

long bills for draughts, boluses, andmedical men ate, rather thoughtlessly "To get

their own bread they es; and that's a bad

sort of treason, Mr Mawmsey--undermines the constitution in a fatal

way"

Mr Mawmsey was not only an overseer (it was about a question of

outdoor pay that he was having an intervieith Lydgate), he was also