The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-06-25
CARELESS DRUGGISTS
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The victims OF the InHttentive PharmHp'
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The careless druggist is more to be
dreaded than an interviewing newspaper
reporter HTdlya q week, passes away
from the United States into eternity with
out taking along with 10 several victims OF
the inattentiyeyp ypharmacist. PheEabsent'
minded dispenser u mdterta medtcd should
himself be dispensed with, for he is even
more dangerous !. than the Q prafticing
physician. Between the-two, the sick
man is not sure Of his fate The giddymani.
pulator Of salntiferons remedies IS even
more dangerous than the cheerful humorist
who fondles the unloaded gun. The pros
pective victim of the unlaoded gun has a
chance to dodge, or he can check the would
be Bogardus by belaboring him into in.
sensibility with chair. But what protec-
tion has the public against the man who
substitutes arsenic for magnesia, and
writes the victims name in large letters on
the bottle, as if it were tombstone, and
then sends 1t to him with directions how
TO take it.
As general thing tho proprietor Of the
drug store does not commit these assas.
sinations himself. The Imam who has his
money invested in drug store knows
that 1t does not pay in the long run to
furnish cash customers with oxalic acid
instead Of epson salts. A few mistakes
Of that kind in putting up prescriptions
create prejudice against the drug store.
The survivors prefer to purchase
even their soda water, tooth brushes,
compilations and other sedatives, OF some
other therapeutic arena. The live druggist
kncws that it is only live people who
wander into his aromatic lair to spend
money, hence he does not care to have
them fed on rats bane, even If there is a
profit Of 200 per cent. on an average pre-
sclp;ion. Nobody ever saw remains de.
liberatoly walk into an apothecary shop,
lay down a dime, and wink solemnly at
the boy who fires of the soda water
fountain. But It frequently happens that
the druggist hires a deputy, who, Of
course, having no permanent interest in the
concern, is inclined TO be careless.
In our opinion, the medical profession
itself is principally to blame. The doc.
tors frequently write a hand that re-
sembles window shutter struck by light.
ming. Some doctors think it is a sign
Of genius to write bad hand,
possibly because Napoleon, Robes
pierre, and several other great profess
sional men, who took wholesale liberty with
human life, just as II they were NJ. DIS,
wrote wretched fists. But that is not the
worst Of it. The doctors write their pre-.
scriptions not only in q bad hand, but in
worse Latin, hence when a sleepy drug
clerk, at a late hour, substitutes some
deadly night shade, or cramp.compelling
hellebore, for soothing condiments, he is
not so much to blame as the physician who
edited the prescription. The doctors con.
.inue to write their prescriptions in Latin
because it preserves some of the mysteries
and illusions that surround the healing art
It awes people TO discover that they are
afflicted with diseases with long compli.
Gated Latin names. Allopathic doctors,
however, should not write the prescrip.
lions in Latin under any circumstances.
AS tho diseases have Latin names, writing
the prescriptions for them in Latin is
adopting the Homeopathic dogma that
like cures like, but that is not material to
The question now under Debate. Almost
everybody has dread of that which
he can not understand, hence much reYer-
ence is paid TO the lawyer, priest or doctor,
who can't get along without Latin. The
professional man who emits Latin phrases
has much lrmer grasp on the people
than the one who talks plain English every
body can understand, although the latter
may have twice the sense. As long as this
lffectation is not detrimental to human
life, no great objection can be raised to It,
but when drug-clerks poison people on ac.
count OF doctored Latin, then It Is time for
Fiat Justitla to step In anil put an end to
.he slaughter. Either that should be done,
or else the doctors should return TO the old
practice OF putting up their own prescrip-
ions. This would b, rough on druggists.
The very idea Of It would make some of
.hem sick. : Indeed It would be rough on
druggists, but It would not DO as rough as
% have them supply people with "Rough
on Rats" or some similar stuff, instead Of
he usual panacoas, .f .-.g-ts. & ..e,