The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-09-10
CARELESS DRUGGISTS.
Mere Dreadful than Reporters.

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The careless druggist Is more to
be dreaded than an interviewing
newspaper reporter. Hardly a wee (
passes away from the United States
into eternity without taking along
Win 1t several victims of the mat
tenuve pharmacist. The absent.
minded dispenser of simateria med
lea" should be dispensed with, for
ne ID even more dangerous than the
pfactlclAg physician. Between the
Two, the sick man ia not sure of his
iats. The giddy manipuls tor OF saju.
tlferous remedies Is even more dan.
gerous than the cheerful humorist
who fondles the unIoaded gun. Z he
prospective victim of the unloaded
gun has a chance to dodge, or he
can cneck the would>be Bogs,dus
by oeiaboring him into insensibiIitv
win a chair But what protection
mas the public against the man who
substitutes arsenic for magues a
and writes the victims name in
iarge ietters on the bottle, as If II
were tom bst0ne, and then sends
1t to him with directions how to
take 1t. ~" ~
As general thing the proprietor
OF the drug store doss rot com.
L1lb these assassinations himself
The man who has his money in.
vested il a drug store knows
that IL does not pay il the long run
10 furnish cash customers with OK
aiie acid instead OF ep. ON sal 9. q
lew mistakes Of that kind in puttinG
up prescriptions create q prejudice
against the drug store. The survi
vors prefer TO purchase even their
SODA water, tooth brushes. CONS
piexions and other sedstiyep. at
some other therapeutic arena. TIE
i've druggist knows that it is only
people who wander into his arc.
mar lair to spend money, hencs
ne Goes not care to have them
iea On rats bsne, even if there is q
prout OF 200 per cent. on an average
prescription. Nobody ever ssw
remains deliberately walk into an
ap9ihecsfy shop, lay down dime,
aHo WINK solem0ly at the boy who
nres Oh the seds water fouatain.
But IL frequently happens that the
oruEgist hires deputy, who. of
course, having no permanent inter
careless. ~ " ~ 40
Ia our opinion, ths medical |
profession ITSELF IS TrincinaIjv
10 piame. The doctors RE-
queniIy write a hand that re. |
Sc moles window shutter struck bv
Egntolng. Some doctors think il js
sign OF genius TO write a tad hand.
possibly because Napoleon, KoDes.
pierre, and several other great pro.
lessionsl men, who took Wholesale
t .hy with human Ii e, just as il
tney were ~ ID - wrote Wretched |
nsts; BUS that is not the worst Of |
II. The doctors write Their prr.
scrlptionS not only in bad hand,
o9G IN worse Latin, hence
when a sleepy drug clerk,
al late hour, substitutes .ome |
oeSdIy eight shade, or crsmp.con,
ceiling helle-t tore for sooth.ng con-
he is not SO nue., tlb!sme
az the phYsicisn who I'd d tue
prescription. The doctors continue
10 write their prescriptions in L tin
because 1t preserves some If the
and Illusions that sur
round the healing art. It awes
people to discover that they ara
with diseases with long
com phcated Latin namea, Aid.
1ath'c doctors, however, should not
write the prescriptions in Latin
under any circumstance s. Az the |
diseases have Latin namea. writing
prescriptions for them In Latin 10
adopting the Homeopathic dogma
that Eks cures like, but that ia not
material to the question now upder
q bate. Almost every BODY hiss a
1reai OF that which he cannot nm
hence much reverence is
PAID to the lawyer, priest or DECOR.
VINO can't get along " thout Latin,
me professional man who emits
Latin phrases has q much firmer
grasp on the people than the one
VINO talks plain English ever, body
can understand, although The latter
nty have twice the sensa
As long IS this Affection
e not delrimen 81 to human
life, no great objection can be raises
TO 1t, But when drug cielk, poison
people on acc Iunt of docsored Latin
then 1t Is time for Fiat Jusiitia To
step N and put an end to tbe
slaughter. Either that should bs
lone, or else the doctors should re-.
urn to the old practice of putting
up their own prescriptions. This
would be rough on druggists. The
very idea of it would make som. of
hem sick Indeed, it would be
'ougn on druggists, but it would nrt
pc az rough az 10 have them sur ply
people with Though on Rats" or
'ome tlmllar stuff, instead of the
usual panacess. - Texas Siftinos