Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-01-04


lancet-fermed the four corner-pillars. |
With the old country stores, rhubarb |
is rhubarb, no matter how much adulter- |
alton; and so with everything else.
They buy where they can buy the cheap |
asst, and, regret to say, that too many |
of our physicians to this day do the same
thing. You can sell them their drugs,
if you have supply of cheap adnlter-
ated goods otherwise they will go where
they can find them.
The prescription business is still in its
infancy, and there are too many of our
physicians who prefer to carry their
score of or two Of drugs, and disperse
them in a manner repulsive to delicacy
| and refinement, rather than have the
range of the entire Materia Medica, and
have their remenies neatly and carefully
prepared by an intelligent apothecary.
Patients often protest against paying
for prescriptions, thinking they are
doubly taxed, and it is often difficult to
make them see that the arrangement is
more for their benefit than for that of the
/ physician and apothecary.
There is a deep evoked prejudice in
community that the profits in drugs are
enormous. But this is not true, large
number Of the staple articles are sold
from the shelf of the apothecary as low
as from the shelf Of the grocer or dry
goods store.
If you use ten cents worth of medi-
cine, and spend half an hours time, and
charge twenty-five cOnts, your customer
is awfully impressed with the profits on
drugs and medicines :. but if your shoe
maker uses three cents worth of leather,
and spend half an hour in patching your
boot, and charges twenty-five cents, no
body Qhinks of complaining of the aw-
full profit on leather Our customers are
willing to pay skilled mechanics half a
dollar an hour for small jobs, and GER
tainly one the skilled apothecary should
be as well compensated for his time as
the mechanic. An intelligent commune
ty should understand that your time and
SKILL is the main thing to be paid for in
the prescription, and not 50 much for
the crude drugs that are put into it,
This erroneous idea in regard to the
profits upon medicines has become so
prevalent that even the State and the
United States governments are influenced
by it. In the State grand list the stock
in drug store is assessed at double the
amount of the same value in the Jewel
cr's mjIliner's or fancy roods dealers
store. which really nav greater profits.
So the United States government. besides
t1o ord;r,or,, d,,+ioa ood to1os rooriroz
MANY, of the articles sold IN a dr,r -~,ra
tolo loaded Will, cta,o,,e
Auof am. ,,ro,riotar,, ,,odici,.ps ond
+ofIa+ or+ioIos oro ~, C,,r oet,,to I,,,--,,al,
arc ,,rono,,,oo5 ncoaIoss I,,,,,,ios snd
,,,,,s+ No oo,.orod r,.ftI st,,,,,,s ,,-ho, tho
;o,,-oIr,. and r1o+od ,,.oro tho ricI, ,-,.es
,a tI,, +I,a,,Io,,3 and ava. ,,,,,o,,,o,,tsa and
,sn , l,o-,-- - ior,a7or ,,,i1I;,,o,.,, and
raaor GOOD, .+~ro tho r.o1 I,,,.,,r;os IF
1;fa r, f,ao
V-n,. mot .ta,on ;,nort.d wines 81.
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hn- ~. Iyaat 1ndia Pnn, onI son f.
, WY w. s+o,,,,fl, hn+ tIo Paw, p,,, Of
,,'. 1 .-;'','' t',7 , A., y,a I,,t,-
,,,,.4 ,,@ to,n',o3 Laca,sa :, Is sold froIn
d,,,cr a+,ro a,,5 +I,o IiC,,,or. loolor il t,o
roro,ito of tho C,o,-o,,,,r,,t rather than
fhc dr1rri-t
DR. Case very clearly dalfn,atr4 the
essential qualifications Of a drugci-t.
First lie mu.t h, 5oa>,t ..TTov
oroat q villain mret he he who 1yorId
employ spurious druc- in putting MD nrn-
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