The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1884-08-28
CARELESS DRUGG SITS
MORE DREADFUL THAN REPORTERS.
The Victims of the Inattentv. Pharma-
cists-A bad Job for Sick Man
when He Fails Into Hun.
dering Hands.

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no 49,. o.. ''' ,''," &c "'",u
sensihiIitv with CHAIR Rs, " ,sha. ,ro,an.
tion h.s H.. ,,,IIi., -, '''' -
substitutes arsnnic fnr ,'.,n.,s;a ma
writes ,h. vic,in,s mann. il, I,',, i'.+,or' 49,,
the bottle. asif i, war. tn,nI,.,on. ami
then sends il, to hin, ni,l, di..,,ion. no,
10 take it.
As general thing the proprietor of tn.
drug store does not commit these assas.
,inations himself. m. man .ho has his
money invested in a druo si,r, knows
that il does not nav in the lone, RIM To-
furnish cash customers with oxnlfc arid
| instead Of EPSON salts. 4 few mistakes
Of that kind in putin. up prescriptions
create a pref lice against the drug store.
The survivors prefer to purchas,
even their soda water, tooth brushes,
| compilations aud other sedntives, Al some
other therapeutic arena. The live druggist
knows that it is only live people wLo
wander into his aromatic lair to spend
| money, hence he does not are to have
them fed on rats bane, even if there is h
profit of NO per cent. ON AN average pre-
scrpiion. Nobody ever saw a remains de
Ilberately walk into AN npolnecaly shop,
lay down dime, aud wink S"lemnly at
the boy VITO fires OFT the soda water
fountain. But 1t frequen' ly happens that
the druggist hires deputy, Who OF
course, having no permanent interest IN the
concern, is inclined to he careless.
In our opinion, the medical profession
itself Is principally 10 hlam'. The q 'c'
tors frequcn ~ "rl'" a liant thu r''
sembles window sh after struck by IL 8.
ming. Some doe or' thnH l. Is 81. ~
OF genus to writ" bal taHd,
possibly because Napoleon l. b"'
pierre, ana several oh"r grca' ptn.r''
sional men, VINO 10 * whoIeshI" liberty WIZ
human lie, Just as II they were VI. D.'>.,
wrote wretched h~ts. but mat Is not IA,
worst of 1t. The doctors write their pr
scrlptions not only IN bad hand, bu' in
worse Latin, hence when ,ir"py urur
'lerk, at u late hour, substitutes some
deadly night shade, or cramp'c mP'.iinN
heliebore, tor soothing continents, he IL
not so much to blame AS the physician VIII,
edited the prescription. Tue ioc ors con
tinue to wri their exemptions IN Lnti.
because it preserves some OF the my 'teries
and illusions that surround the healing art.
1t awes people to discover that they ar,
afflicted with diseases with long compll
Gated Latin names. AlIoiaih'c doctors,
however, should not write the prescrlp'
tons IN Latin under any clrtuin>tuuc e.