Show MORGUE OF DEAD BOTTLES Druggist Criticises People Who Leave Medicines Uncalled For The woman left the prescription and said she would call for the medicine In half an hour Ill het u she wont said the clerk She just looks like the kind that gets medicine put up for the fun of tho thing I I I didnt know there was anybody foolish enough to take their fun that way remarked the next customer I Oh yes there nre such people lots of them said the clerk Seldom a week passes that we do not put up a prescription > that is never called for Why In the world the people who thus neglect their remedies after ordering them compounded will go to the trou ble and expense of consulting a doctor la more than I can figure out If they dont want to take the stuff prescribed I they certainly dont have to hut they might at least have the grace to come and take It home after we have gone to Iho trouble to prepare It and not throw It back a dead loss on our hands Why Ive got a regular morgue back there for the repose of uncalledfor bottles of medicine I keep the stuff Indefin itely hoping that In case the consumer has not been carried off by sudden death she will show up again Borne time and ask for the bottle If I happen to Icnow the dellnquonla address I send Ituround i C 0 D but people who make a practice of ordering medicine that they never Intend to take are not apt to leave their cards with the druggist drug-gist Most of these nuisances In the drug business are women and many of their prescriptions have been written by outoftown doctors several months or In some cases years ago In such cases tho customer probably has no fhtentlon of coming back for the medicine medi-cine but merely wished it compounded through tome freakish fancy In order or-der to guard against loss through such crazy whims we ought by rights to demand de-mand a deposit on all prescriptions to be called for later on but such an innovation in-novation would undoubtedly bring out a mighty howl and we have never had the courage to suggest ItNew York Press I |