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Show A Sensible irecutlon. Yon a-ik ine why I inqnired your ad-fireas ad-fireas whou writi'JR out the prescription for your couglt. The reason will ut onca commend itHBlf to every sensible wind, and is sitniu'y thin: There bave been cam innumerable wiiero lives niiKht huve boon siivnd had the nnmbor of the ret ideace of the party for whom the prescription pre-scription was put np been knowu to the druggist. For, a we ail know, mistakes mis-takes are uiitd.i even in the most reli;i-Wo reli;i-Wo dnig stores through the carolesKness ' of clerks. Not lotiK nRO a druggist found, on returninjr from supper, that a bottle of strychnine was ou the counter, mid akd tho reason why. The clerk replied that he had junt been pr.tting np a prescription, and was horrified hor-rified when he found that ho had tnade use of strychnine instead of some less harmful druo; mentioned in the preemption. preemp-tion. The frightened young fellow did not even know the namo of the person who had come foi it, or for whom it was intended, and utter hours of search on Vhe p;irt of the distracted druggist the unfortunate victim was at last traced to bis home, but too lat, for the first dose had killed him. That is why I place the name of the pat ient both on the prescription prescrip-tion for tho druggist and on the stnb left in my prescription Imok. Interview hi St. Louis Globe-Democrat. |