Show rm ats ll 11 R VO I 1 ok what shall ube A 71 w L DRUGGIST even v though it Is a profession S 0 n h he c can be a fully equipped and d I 1 licensed c n pharmacist by the time I 1 h he Is nineteen how he may y work 0 his hl way through pl pharmacy r y school and get actual experience PI r n at tho the same time the he two grades of schooling and d what b at they lead to never he heard d of OT a I 1 druggist falling in bl it ald you B by yc C W JENNINGS 8 WW W W HE HERB E seems to many pe peo 0 aj A j pie to be something mysterious bla about a druggist sal lay lie ile may be a good fellow osky and amiable enough to please everybody but he Is a different being to outside eyes when he be retires behind the partition in the back of the drug store and beins gins to pour out mysterious and evil smelling things and pound them up with a pestle according to the unreadable hieroglyphics furnished by your doctor then he Is tho the druggist and not when ho be Is selling toothbrushes tooth brushes or ice cream soda this compounding of drugs has risen to a profession during the last few years comparatively speaking of almost equal importance with the so 80 called higher ones of medicine and surgery Bur gery Ilo however wever it Is much easier and less expensive to acquire and also takes less time for instance your boy may bo be a fully equipped and licensed pharmacist by the time be Is nineteen but bu he could not be much of a doctor so early dearly in ufa life at fifteen years la Is about the time you should send out your son who aspires ns to be a pharmacist or ch chemist ernist ile he need to have moro more education than he would get by the first year in a high school ile ho require so much as that until two years later when he ha has to go away to school but it is easier to get it in the beginning than afterward get him a job in ID a drug store somewhere at anything the proprietor will give elve him todo do tor or he ha know enough yet to be more than a roustabout tn in the store washing bottles sweeping out running errands etc this will start him on a sort of apprenticeship which should continue for or a couple of years at the end of that time almo he should be drawing 6 or IS 8 or 10 a week according to his usefulness and the generosity of his tm employer and should know a lot of things about the way drug stores are conducted how to handle a pestle an and pound up crystals and powders and things and make himself generally valuable va then he has to go to school and take a regular course of two years here is where his preliminary experience will be of value as it will enable min him to work his way through without costing you anything for in a large city like new york or chicago for in stance acance he can caa arrange to work halt half the time and so go to school the other half and the money he earns will be enough probably to pay his expenses rho fhe total cost of taking the two years course amounts to about but this need not be paid all at once if you have money enough to pay hla his way through thi ough so much the better there are various scholarships open to him the school year lasts usually for or thirty weeks taking new york conditions AS a basis for this article as most states are generally alike la in their requirements the leading university has two courses cour in pharmacy one the college course requires tor for admission the equivalent of a common school aduca tion including a year ia n a high school and at the end of two years bestows bestons the degree of graduate in pharmacy which qualifies your boy to take the state examination necessary to become a licensed pharmacist I 1 then there Is the university course to be admitted to which a boy must have hare the tha equivalent of a full high school education which after two years year gives the degree of pharmaceutical chemist and carries admission on without examination into the surgical end and medical college and also into the tha graduate courses leading to the detree decree of doctor of pharmacy these two courses are allaf in all essentials except that the university course la ia a little more advanced the course of ct study sounds formidable to one who knows nothing about 1 t for the specialty of course co Is chemistry which la Is elaborated upon through all tho stages of analytical pharmaceutical organic and inorganic then there are the mathematics of pharmacy the theory or of pharmacy tho the art of applying scientific knowledge to the of drugs treating of dotes and quantities of vie medicine dicine toxicology biology aud and instruction st in the laor inorganic ganie and organic of daiga 5 2 ilo il tto o dew ho has com completed petel this course your boy will probably have bave decided whether he wishes more schooling whick would him for or tie the higher ab phases es of the bb bust busl r ibos sa or j go put a a practical druggist it if ho he chooses to go on with his loard learn ing he can get into the gradual course without further preparation and obtain the degree of doctor ul of pharmacy this course lasts for only a year taking up plant sanitary chemical and pharmaceutical analysis practical pharmaceutical es saying higher pharmacy physiological chemistry bacteriology botanical analysis microscopic tech nic organic or gas jaza analysis lysis toxicology and analysts analysis ot of foods beverages and drugs there is also a food and drug courso course open to all graduates which takes up the analysis of foods chiefly by microscopic and chemical methods it if your boy has hag gone through all this educational training which requires not more than four years he be la Is prepared to tako take up the tha most advanced chemical work and Is in direct una line tc become a specialist with all the emoluments and honors that such a profession would give him ills hla work would in all likelihood be with some boma manufacturing chemists che mista after leavin leaving school unless he went for a year or two in a drug store to give him a lit tie more practical basis where ho ha could develop any specialty he might wish to and he be might advance himself as a bacteriologist which is one modern scientific medical research leaving school at the conclusion ol at his first course however his bis most likely procedure would be to take th tha a examination before the state board and become a licensed pharmacist this would entitle him to go into any drug store at a salary ranging from 20 to 30 a week there Is not much direct financial advancement in the ibe store end of the tha drug business as practically the only promotion possible la Is to a paying from 35 a week up in a tew few of the largest drug stores the tha managers are paid as much perhaps a year but these positions are scarce in these conditions your ambit tout boy will aim ot of course io fo have a business of his own this requires money however which he must elthea have saved or borrow it will require at beast to orienti open a store r ot cl own in a small town of which probably 1500 would b ba 0 need its aa first payment on the worth of goods he would neel need as stock and tho the rest resl go for fixtures etc most host of tho the jobbers would be ba apt to let him havo hav goods gooda by paying hall down accepting a mortgage for the balance I 1 from then on your boys growth will depend upon himself as aa an independent merchant but as aa he b ass q exercised care in his bis choice of a place and tin profits in drugs are enormous ther Is little likelihood of his not advancing to any reasonable status hi may aspire to and anyhow who ever heard of a drug firm fallin ailing gt 1 you may have but riot not often copyright 1310 1910 by the associated ut lit frary press |