Anonymous

“ I am not a physician, I am even ignorant of the simplest forms of disease which many druggists are familiar with, and my excuse for the ignorance is, that I have studiously avoided that line of study, that I might have less incentive for the so-called art of counter prescribing.
But if I am weak in the knowledge of disease, I hope I have not spent thirty years behind the drug counter without using my faculties of observation, and in as short a time as possible, I wish to register my emphatic objection to the further open sale and use of the coal tar derivatives, and I follow with my reasons. ”

“ Never in the history of the College has there been a better demand for first-class men, and it is doubtful if there ever has been a time when there were so few good men available. Despite the pessimism that exists in the minds of some people as to lack of opportunity for a young man to advance in pharmacy, it is a fact that there are still many excellent opportunities for those who are ambitious enough to fit themselves for good positions. There is no room in any business for the shiftless and lazy.—Bulletin of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. ”

“ Prescription economy does not mean to buy medicines where you can get them the cheapest—unless you can be sure of absolute purity, freshness and medicinal activity. Bring your prescriptions to us and we know that you will get the best and not pay too much for it, either. This is prescription economy.—Curtin and Perkins, St. Joseph, Mo.
We may not be the nearest drug store to you, but we will come the nearest to pleasing you, both in service and quality.—Miller’s Pharmacy, Chattanooga, Tenn. ”

“ You have the blood and sinews of the drug trade of the town among you. As an association, don’t follow the paths of your predecessors. Establish an individuality by doing things differently from others. Let every man pledge his moral, and, if necessary, his financial support, and stick to it. Let us prepare a new path and tempt Opportunity, and when that great, but elusive and fickle dame, should appear, make her welcome so sincere and royal that the good lady would not deign to leave. ”

“ The world is not thy friend, nor the world’s law.
The world affords no law to make thee rich;
Then be not poor, but break it, and take this, etc.”
But, unlike Romeo, I advise obedience and respect for the laws you have. Make the best of them until such time may arrive when we can demand equitable treatment; when you will live under laws formulated by yourselves; when your laws protect, and do not discriminate or oppress; when the dignity of pharmacy is akin, at least, to other professions. ”

“ If your window is worth the time and talents of an expert window decorator, such as are sent out by the national advertisers, is it not worth the time—spare time, let us say—of your clerk? It is a mighty poor window that a national advertiser will not jump at the chance to decorate for you. The chances are that nearly every retail druggist in the South has one very good window. ”

“ Can you blame the public for believing some of the things said about you when not so much as a word of defense or a syllable of protest is offered in rebuttal?
As individuals you can protect yourself but feebly and accomplish but little; united you must be a power. ”

“ Considering the effect on myself, on the people I have sold to, the evidence of many physicians who have found out the pernicious effects and have felt themselves compelled to abandon or modify its use, I venture the opinion that, while it is bad medicine for any one for regular use, on those who are extremely susceptible to it, it soon vitiates the blood, and deprives them of their full powers of resistance, when sudden shock or disease o’er takes them. ”

“ Every factory, farm, field, forest, stream, mines, and what not, will then come under the watchful eye of this new Army which, with all of the wisdom of science, will guard the health of the country, if anything, more zealously than it is guarded against foreign foes. Every occupational disease will be banished, every case of communicable disease will be promptly isolated.
The men who are to perform this service will be the doctors and druggists of today who survive at that time, together with those who shall be hereafter graduated in those professions ”

“ Pharmacy is a profession of the highest order, a sort of composite type, requiring the manipulative skill of the mechanic with the technical knowledge of the professional man, and demanding above all other professions at all times a clear head and an immediate and scrupulous knowledge of your subject. ”

“ All the resolutions passed, all the enthusiasm demonstrated in your meetings will amount to nothing and you will revert into a mutual admiration society unless followed up by every ounce of alertness, activity and aggressiveness that your various committees and your massed membership can summon to their aid. Yours is a worthy cause; one that demands justice and equity, and in all fairness to yourselves, you want to enter it with that energy that brings success. ”

“ Koch, that has made possible all of these wonders, and many others beside, and others yet to come, is the simple fact that microscopic organisms grow in pure culture, upon a piece of boiled potato. This is the corner-stone upon which has been built the whole science of modern Bacteriology. With these facts confronting us and others of like nature to follow, we naturally turn to inquire what effect these changes are likely to exert upon the practice of pharmacy. ”

“ That gentleman who pays no taxes on his stock and fixtures, needs no traders’ license, is subject to no drug inspection, who is insincere with his patients, and needs but the occasion to discredit druggists, as a whole, in furthering his schemes of diverting from the proper channels that which rightfully does not belong to him. ”

“ Every pharmacist has observed the greatly increased development of the commercial side of the drug business as compared with its scientific side, which rather seems to be accorded a secondary place in the conduct of its affairs, regardless of the fact that this feature is the one that gives it character, and the only one that distinguishes it from ordinary merchandising. ”

“ Through laboratory research work, modern medical science has progressed to such an extent that in some diseases the form of medication has changed entirely, while in others medication is reduced to a minimum. Chemical combinations, synthetics, biological products, vaccines, etc., have all in a natural sequence deprived the pharmacist of many prescriptions. ”

“ Your gargles, douches, sprays, external and internal medication have to a considerable extent been supplanted some time ago by anti-toxin, and so on, but the unfortunate side of it is that in cities such as ours much more of these products are supplied through the health department and the hospitals than through the legitimate channel of trade, the druggist, and oftentimes to many undeserving people. ”

“ Between the years 1922 and 1932 we may expect to have established a National Board of Health, with a chief officer in the cabinet and an organization similar to that of the Army, in which every physician and every pharmacist will be an officer of the United States Government. Those physicians, under the new order, who remain in the office awaiting the call of the sick will be comparatively few in number. ”

“ For I maintain that Opium or Cocaine are not one-half so deadly as Coal Tar, for while they openly show what they can do, the other works silently till the end is near. For our part, we have quit putting up a remedy of our own, and I have in mind the adoption of a label, to go on the outside of all packages sold, to read something like this:
“All remedies containing acetanilid, acetphenetidin or like product of coal tar are dangerous, and should be used with caution, in extreme cases only, and never habitually.” ”

“ We have a common cause to work for. Every man is as vitally interested as the other, and has as much at stake, HIS ALL. And I am sure by unity of action on matters well discussed in meetings, much of material advantage can be accomplished, and before the sun sets on many another year many trade defect will be on a fair way to be remedied, and what now appear to be breakers ahead will subside, calmed by the oil of Prosperity, to make easy sailing for the Good Old Ship Contentment.
A MODERN FOUNTAIN—SIMPLE AND INVITING. IN THE STORE OF DAVIS DRUG COMPANY, FORT SMITH, ARK. ”

“ For a number of years all of the best men of the graduating class have been engaged long before they had completed their course in college, the medium grade men have been easily placed, and even the poorest students have had little difficulty in getting fair positions and holding them. The only men who have had any great difficulty in securing satisfactory berths have been those who have been too lazy to work, or who have had other traits of general character that no employer would wish in any of his employes. ”

“ Laws that are definite, made to prosecute, to handle him criminally and contemptuously; that afford no protection, allow not the slightest leeway, are as fragile as glass apparently for others, but for him as unyielding and inflexible as steel, and as positive as the Decalogue; made by men who have no practical knowledge of the business, know little, and inform themselves less on the matter they are legislating. ”

“ Our sales for one year covering our retail trade and a wholesale account of about 100 physicians totals 100,000 tablets containing some one of the coal tar products. The patent headache and pain remedies, estimated in ten cent packages, total 4000 and the cold cures 700 boxes, while the bulk goods, covering acetanilid, acetphenetidin, hexamethylene, sulfonal, trional, veronal, reaches 15 pounds. The profit on these goods should run about $400, but the public is welcome to our part of it, if they will let coal tar alone, either voluntarily or by compulsion. ”

“ It has placed the practice of medicine upon a scientific basis, and inaugurated the era of preventive medicine. The day of curative measures, with which we are most familiar, is passing. In most of the cities and large communities of the world, Public Hygiene has become a very important department of government. Observe our own city of Philadelphia; we have there the largest water purification plant in existence. Its effect, in that city is to reduce the number of typhoid fever cases 80 per cent. of the former total, and perhaps 100 per cent. ”

“ Some family physicians, who are nothing more than diagnosing agents for the specialists, and who, when called in to see the sick, immediately consult a specialist, with the result that in about 50 per cent. of the cases the subject generally finds his or her way into the hospital. The great number of dispensaries in our community, with their indiscriminate service and consequent unbridled abuse, is another cause for the falling off in the prescription business. ”

“ The Alabama Board of Pharmacy does not recognize diplomas from any college of pharmacy or medicine. Has reciprocal exchange with those States that accord same courtesy, provided applicant holds certificate by examination and required experience.
All applicants for a Pharmacist license must be 21 years of age, with four years’ practical experience (two years’ credit given for college diploma) , general average, 75 per cent. in all branches, and not less than 60 in any one. Assistants must be 18 years of age and make 60 per cent. general average. ”

“ If you are wise to your business, you will take advantage of your opportunity to reach through this journal a prosperous trade—the Southern Druggist.
Remember what we said about the South last month—“it is more prosperous every time the sun comes up.” ”

“ If you want real good ice cream, ’phone your order today.—Van Smith Drug Store, Austin, Tex.
Summer days are ice cream days, and you want the best cream obtainable. Call us up. You’ll find we have the best and that the price is right.—Boughton’s, Mansfield, O.
Ice cream that is pure, wholesome and delicious, made from fresh, rich cream and the finest of fruit flavors, will be delivered to your home in any quantity. ”

“ The owners will run the drug store in connection with their practice. A waiting room, consultation room and a laboratory will occupy one-half of the building, while the remainder will be given up to the drug store.
It is announced by A. R. Keen, the manager of the Georgian Terrace, Atlanta’s handsome hotel for tourists, that a prescription drug store will be opened in the large room in the north corner of the hotel. The store will be opened this summer, and will be the first drug store in Atlanta to be located inside a hotel. ”

“ One-fourth of the United States entire export trade for over a quarter of a century has been the South’s cotton.
The South produces practically all the phosphate used in the United States, and more than two-thirds of the fertilizers.
During the past thirty-two years the value of the South’s cotton surpassed the world’s entire output of both gold and silver by over $5,000,000,000.
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THE LURE OF THE “FIZZ.”
AN AMERICAN SODA FOUNTAIN IN MANILA SELLING BEVERAGES FROM THE SOUTH
Few things appeal to us and capture our fancy like a bubbling spring. ”

“ There’s the combination for safety, results and satisfaction.—Rose Drug Co., St. Joseph, Mo.
Recovery Is Doubtful if the quality of the Drugs and Medicines given a patient is not above doubt.
We spare no effort in obtaining the purest and most reliable goods. Efficiency is dependent upon freshness in almost all Drugs, and all Prescriptions are compounded from Drugs which have not deteriorated through age.
Accuracy is the strong feature of our Prescription Department.—The White Cross Pharmacy, Rutland, Vt. ”