Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-01-03
FAIR PHARMACISTS A FAILURE.
There Is No Place for Them in the Drug
Trade.

There are a hundred women pharma-
cists in New York city but not one in
business. They have charge of the dis
pensaries connected with converts, asy-
lums, hospitals. homes, and charitable
institutions. They are capable, skllltul,
and progressive, and their number IS
steadily increased by the fair solitaire
that ornaments nearly every class gradu-
ated from the pharmaceutical schools
and colleges, and yet there is not a
woman in the drug business, nor drug
gist in New York who would willingly
make an opening for her in his store,
And the reason? She would kill the
business, unless chained to the prescrip-
ton counter and kept out of sight.
Said a well known Broadway mer-
chant: II wouldn't give 50 month to
the best woman druggist you could pro-
duce; / wouldn't have her about if she
agreed to work for nothing don't say
that woman is untitled for pharmacy;
on the contrary, I know that she eNcel5,
her painstaking fidelity and acuteness
fitting her for the nice determinations
required in the compromising and prep
arations of medicines, bnt she would
be no good behind the counter. Men
would not trust her nor women contlde
in her. A large percentage of the busl-
ness comes from the people who want
advice-advice that the doctors are not
generally called upon to give, They
want a remedy for headache, burns,
bunions, chills, Indigestion, prostration,
nervousness; they come in, show their
tongue. and describe their discom-
fort and ask for dose of some
thing. Give it to them? To be sure
we do-some light tonic or stimulant to
quicken faith, which cures & great deal
faster aud bet or than drugs,
Nov, these people would not go to
lady druggist Men would not trust to
her Judgment. They would argue
wisely enough, that never having had
'swelled head of her own, she could
not prescribe intelligently for the re-
lief of that Inconvenience. The man
with the gripes would hardly go to her,
and the pet of society could not be eN-
pectel to c3nfide the liberal amount OF
pates ice cups, and liqueurs he had al
lowed himself the previous night
"Man's innate refinement would re-
strain him from consulting a woman on
the topics that are brought to the atten-
ton of male druggist daily.
"Woman's distruSt is proverbial. She
judges the gender by her own limited
knowledge, and has absolutely no conf
dence in feminine ability or Judgment.
Hence the poor success of professional
women. Yol know as well as l do that
New York has as many starving doc
tresses as it has dressmakars. They
can't get hold Men are not expected to
call them in and women won't There
are few exceptions, but they don't
count, their practice being confined to
charity patients and limited to babies
and young children.
"The fair SEX believes in men without
questioning and when it comes to q
choice between great woman and a
gosling of man behind the medicine
counter the former would be passed
every time Let a woman once get re-
lief, benefit, or assistance from male
druggist and nothing will shake her
faith in him. Size will consult him
whenever S e is indisposed, act on his
advice and prize it above that OF the
family physician.