The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-02-12

occasions refused to fill prescriptions oil
said DR.. Wilson, and would therefore rec
Ommend that the said contract be revoked
and We further recommend that hereafter
no contract ba awarded to druggists lor
medicine to b. furnished to the poor.
"rHoMAs PRISCR,
~, q. PICKETT,
John W. NICHOLS,
IL. DGLrRuGUE."
THE EVIDENCE.
DR., Wilson was first sworn, and repeat
ed the statements previously made by him
To the Committee, that Bingell had sever
al times refused to I'LL his prescriptions
and that h6 had filled others with medi
cine not up to the standard prescribed
sometimes substituting cheaper drugs o.
the same general character and sometimes
using less quantity than prescribed 81
the right article. He frequently filed pre-
ECriptlons for hve.grain qllnine pills with
two or three-grain pills, prescriptions fol
three grain pills with one or twO-grain
pills, etc. On one occasion, as before mar
rated, he furnished sui phate Of ciuChona
when CinChona mixture sugar OF milk
soda and CinChona) had been prescribed
for a child, aud the result was serious
A prescription for lingeed oil and lime
water, with little CarbollC acid, was fill
ed with sweet oil and water with the acid
One prescription for cathartiC pills for O
man named Finnegan had been filled by
A, T, Young, and one pill was sufficient
for dose. The same prescription was
sent to Blngell after he got the contract
and he furnished pills OF which 1t required
four or five TO produce the Bame effect
A small bottle Of tinCLUre Of quinino put
up by Bingell was shown, beaide similar
preparation from another druggist, Bin.
COILS was perCepLibly paler.
On December 30, DR.. Wilson said, he
prescribed (No. 1867 three.grain sulphste
Of Quinine pills for Annie Costello. lie
showed one Of tho bills furnished, together
with two.grain pill from another drug,
gist. The two are Of the same size.
SHOWING THEIR HAND.
Mr.. Pickett asked II DR.. Wilson had ever
prescribed ilr this patient pills OF less size
than threO.grains. The Doctor said pre-.
Echption No. 1865 called for three.grain
pills.
Mr.. Blngell asked. doctor, couldn't
you take the pills out Of that box and put
beans INF"
"Yes," said DR.. Wilson, "but ! will say
right here that all Of these. medicines |
have shown here to the best OF my knowl.
edge and belief came from Mr.. Bingell's
drug store Just rs they are here. never
changed any OF them, substituted any.
thing for them or In anyway altered them.
AZ they game into lpy possession, you
have them here"
Mr.. Delbrugge-"But.a change could be
mRdeW
Chairman PrinCe-"What benefit TO the
patient or 10 any other person would 1t ID
to substitute another thing for that fur.
nished by the druggist"
A Miss Eberle was then sworn. Dr..
Wilson wrote for her mother prescription
No. 1888, calling for three.grain qulnine
pills. II was retllled two or TIRES times,
sometimes with One.grain pills, some.
time with two, but with three. Two
different boxes, each marked "No. 1885,"
were shown, the two pills being Of different
size. These boxes we're never in DR..
Wilson's possession, and tho girl swore
nobody had had a chance to change the
contents, as they had never loft her
custody. Thetwo,Erain pills were obtained
on the three.grain prescription the day
after this committee first met.
A DRUGGISTS TESTIMONY.
Mr.. Edmund Bockifg, the well knQwn
druggist, wGs neXt sworn. He said that
Hlngel's statement that DR.. Wilson had
exhibited medicine furnished by Bingell
In the witnesses store and criticized his
manner Of doing business in the presence
Of two physicians, was totally untrue, He
heard DR.. Wilson mention the matter 10
President Woods, Of the Board ei Commits
sioners, but TO nobody else. On one occa.
sion DR.. Wilson brought pill to tho wit.
ness, and agkpd how many grains oiquinine
II contained. Mr.. Docking lhoughtit was a
two.grain pill, but to be certain, weighed
IT, He found II TO be two grains,
Some Cross.Hre took place between Mfr.
Booking and Rlngell, which was not peril.
nent to the Enquiry, Mr.. llingell charging
the witness with personal animosity, and
the witness denying the charge. After hin.
CELL had made q lqpg.wlndel statement
without objection, Mr. booking replied
briefly. Mr., Delbrhgge at once suggaated
that this discussion was not In order--A
very pertinent suggestion had II been
made when Bingell began his speech.
Mr. Booking said In answer 10 a query
that there was q severe penalty fixed by
law for dispensing anything different
from what Fas prescribed by a physician.
A good deal Of his testimony was Gs to the
proper usage OF druggists In certain by.
polhetiCal cases. None Of this was favor.
able TO Bingell.
OTHER wlTNKSsEa.
Mrs. BlnneRat was called, hut niDgell
admitted that he had refused 10 oil pre-.
scriptiunS for Der because her luabaAd
owned property and was able.bodied,
while she had two sons at work. Mrs,
Flnnegan said her husband had been
helpless SINCE last Iunef her Two sons
were boys, and the property was not paid
ioF.
4 Mrs. Thompson also told Of Mr.
Bingell's refusal TO all county ptescrip'
tons for her.
Bingell's only defense was that he was
not responsible for prescriptions alter the
medicine had ''paBaed through fifty
hands, lie aBaiI insisted that these
charges we're "pfemedltated.D
Dr., Wilson responded that II The evi.
dence had not existed 1t could not have
been produced. lie reserved the right 10
CritiClEs the manner in which any druggist
filed bis prescriptions, and toCOnneDt
When aud There he pleased,
After a good deal 81 desultory talk, tile
COMMITTEES adjourned until 2 =, M Upon
teassembling the discussion was renewed
and CONTINUED lof 8Ome TINA.
Mr., Nichols offered the following
SptTAiEISa THE cHARoRs,
uReSolWd, That in view Of the foregoing