Merr<t. 295 
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fis, as Mr. Wood fays, of Dr. Goodall's 
book, printed in 1684. 
In 1669, he wrote A lliort View of 
the Frauds and Abufes committed by 
*^ Apothecaries, in relation to Patients, and 
" Phyficians/' 4°. This treatife engaged 
him in a controverfy with the famous 
Henry Stubbe. It may be prefumed, that 
all difcuffions of this kind, howfoever well 
meant, can have but little efFedl in reform- 
ing the abufes hinted at, while the cufto- 
mary and legal conftitution, and polity of 
phyfic, remain in the prefent ftate in Great 
Britain, 
In 1662, he tranflated into Englifi, The 
Art of Glafs ; how to colour Glafs, Ena- 
" mels. Lakes, &c.'* S\ written h^Ant. Ne- 
R I, accompanied with an account of the Glafs 
Drofs. And, in 1686, the fame work was 
publifhed in Latin y with Dr. Merret's 
Obfervations and Notes," equal in extent 
to the work itfelf. Amjl. \z\ 
Mr. informs us, that he alfo print- 
ed, in one fheet, 4°. The Charader of a 
compleat Phyfician or Naturalift." 
Dr. Merret was among the earliefl: 
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