| Show f M 11 r I I WHO OWNS A PRESCRIPTION I Does It I t or Do Does It Not I no t to Him Woo Who Py Pays f for It I U Li tn An Interesting has been started b by th the New few York Times with to In the ownership of prescriptions furni had b by doctors Somebody Its It ItI s I n II rote crate to Ib the paper aper complaining th thit t h r hI a doctor tor a a prescription v t I h 11 he h naked fur for after ft It hid bad been rl f Il d I y II a druggist The latter refused t d hear It or oa the Ule ground that the pI I I lit fit had no to U It The sick lit uI I hul presented a document calling J i i drugs which had been mind i I He fl had paid for the Ibe I I the III transaction ended I It h e the druggist held to ton tob b i n w fur fat him by the dot doe doeS S anent l being a mere Incident In ling This Thill lb the thought I and said Id so 10 la Ie print Now tb the Ind druggists are HUn about I I I I bile there I Ii a difference or of orI I I n among II Inon them a as to whether the then n ih h Inv Invents nUl a prescription or the thet 1 t 11 tilts it II becomes It TI II IhY y are unanimous In the dec dc Iii II I ti 11 t that ht the pr person oll who pay pays the Si 01 fl furnishing It and then goes fla h r std 1111 puts mon stoney into lotI tb the hands handa r f tI thi rt who compounds ull the then n II II m It t chile for has nl right orti or ti k t I It whatever lie is 18 merely antas a t ng r In fn th Ih ot of both bolh doe doc trim Ir and druggists IR who oam the pee 1 I vUn from one place to another and Ind having l that duty all remains lye Vr him I is to take bl his med lathe kin It 11 I is not nol to why a druggist t should bou want ant to retain po poI I n of nr pres When he hands handl a out oUI with the me medicine l It calls for the patient may go ao elsewhere to I have It refilled In ra cites that becomes necessary neer A As for the doctors tbt they t probably figure that It I Is always It a had bpi I 1 thing thin to haw have a prescription tilled filled a Um time anyway anwa The medicine that cure u toda today ma may tomorrow you 01 know One On should always alway pay bra bill r fee for the little slip lIp of It pal er w 1111 the blip R at t the upper lefthand corner so 10 as asto s sIu to Iu hta be sure ur J This ot of the ownership of 1 prescriptions may ba have something to todo t do with the tact that tb they are not writ written ten In plain English A mn man with 1 a prescription that tha t he could read would be bea 1 e a dangerous person lIt lie might sit It down on the curbstone or In I a stairway be between tween the doctors office and the drug I tore tor and snake a ropy opY ot of the Ihl document Theft there would bt be no telling whet what might follow tollow It If hI he had a paIn under his left shoulder blade and antl the called for try by the Jr prescription be hat had cUl i urd It fl hE would In about nine ca cases out of ten be i S enough to try Ih the same lame thing the next time Ume h he had bad a similar pain t Na Nay more mort lie might even lend the prescription to hili friends It If tM they hap bap petted to ba have 1 Pains under their left leel shoulder blade bladell This ill Is a matter of tar I reaching There Ther le II no telling where It might end No o wonder r the doe II I 1 tors ut use Latin LaUn and write It so 10 badly that a man who fin can read Mil Horace Hora and Virgil itt III the Ihl III 11 unable to make out any ny more than Sig and lant even sure d that when he sits IU down to de II a prescription tr for medicine The doctors scoff cuff at but f 1 Nt exact till lime most mOlt lt faith from their patients aUnt The patient a pre for tor that rundown or ora a 8 10 loo of ap appetite lIte ordinarily the faintest Idea whether he b I is being with quinine strychnine try part parI green freen freenor or wagon grease r All h he lion does Is III take lake lakeIt It and trust to 10 luck luek There is II COUld able lI faith It that tha t alter all 9 G d a M |
