| Show drug horo f tore doctors doctora drug stores lire almost as common as corner grocers gro ceri ceris s and the competition among druggists is nearly as fierce as among the doctors the ordinary druggist is never cover so happy as when one of his customers addresses mm him as doctor and proceeds to justify the title as far as lie he is able by prescribing for such ills aj ai should be treatis trea treat tid td only under the direction of the competent physician if lie he have any scruples aleut prescribing outright lie he has a sate safe refuse ge in recommending some patent medicine or secret nostrum in this way hu he is able to avoid trox trouble ible should death follow his ministrations while the of this nefarious trade are scarcely leil than it if ho he himself from hs his stock of regular and irregular drugs it is probable that not 1 per cent of tle the druggists of any large town could be found who had not prescribed to quit i 1 large extent for diseases of which they knew nothing this counter prescribing by druggists is an evil of enormous enCi rinous proportions it Is very probable that at least one halt half of the medicines dispensed daily by these unlicensed practitioners in st louis are given across the counter without the protection of a physicians prescription the most dangerous and powerful of drugs are thus dispensed such as laudanum crude opium morphine orphine in and arsenic although thou though h this is strongly strong Atron gly prohibited by bylaw law the druggist who ought to la be the cheerful servant oi of the ibe physician ab in the dispensing of medicines becomes in this way his most powerful rival and strongest enemy the coly remedy for this state of affairs is foe physicians in cities to go back to the practice of the country doctor and dispense their own drugs druga W B hazard AI D in globe democrat |
