Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-02-23
rHE PH1RMIcY NM.


a Physicians Reasons Why Mr..
Spruamoe's Proposed Enactment should
be Defeated by Che Legislature.
Ritter Of The Gd.cttt: The druggists, as
is their custom, arc again knocking at the
ln.rigtative doors, but On this occasion it
aplcars they have waded ont into little
deeper water and through Representative
Sprlancc. who Is also druggist, are try
inE BY the means Of q pet amendment to
the Pharmacy act, or law, rs it now exists,
and which is NIL that they, We and every
body else need. asking o. rather begging
the state to give them annually the sum OF
5000 and at the same time to legislate the
medical fraternity to the rear in 50 far as
the running drug store is connected with
tie physietans practice
IE tile object Of the bill, he not special,
why should il read, "all physicians rum
ming drug stores, &C.? Now, lot us
analyzc little; but before doing SO let us
ask the question Would such q law be to
the interest OF the majority We think
| NOT. rhe physician without drug store
| has his office fees ranging from 50cents to
I 81. or more, according TO worl; and time,
which fee Is strictly cash. 4 patient then
| who has consulted the physician, pnid the
| above fee, and armed with his prescription
| proceeds 10 some drug store. and pays TO
| The druggist as much more for his meii-
| cine aggrcgating to the patient 2QO per
| cent for consultation and medicine. Now,
\ please bear in mind that the above charges
| are repeated ii the patient need further
treatment after having taken the meli-
cine, as no prescriptions are renewed with
out an order from the physician.
liut, on the other hand should the ply
| stefan have drug store i'll connection
with his practice, he charges no office fees
for consultation and sells the medicine to
the patient as cheaply as he could pur-
chase it elsewhere, thus saving to the
patient at lenst 100 Der cent
But, pleads Mr.. Srruance and his
brother druggists through him, the physi-
clans may under this act have Their drug
stores, provided they, or each OF them,
employ al least one graduate in pharmacy
Now, why should physician be COM.
PEELED by enactment to employ at least one
graduate in pharmacy, and all other drug
giSs go scot free? Are the doctors so very
ignorant after having spent years, many Of
them, in hard and ahorions study, ad
miniStering to the various needs of tbs
sick, in prescribing and dispensing tbs
various drugs To relieve pain and save life
al all hours both Gay and night, that they
mast be compelled to have their work i'll
spected by some fellow who barely knew
enough to get his diploma from some col
lego OF pharmacy
II is said that q majority Of doctors di
poor, and there is great deal Of truth il
I
: because Of i'll health be compelled to Civ
UP general practice he could not unde
/ this act start little drug store il he re
NAMED in it all the time and had anpl
/ Time to do all the work. Why? Becaus
, the law would say he is not qualified to d
! the work, but must have at least on
! graduate in pharmacy TO assist and detec
1 whatever mistakes the physician ma
| make, thus increasing the physicians
weekly expenses from S. 10 $40 or more.
; re,,eat that the law. as it now is,
good enough, and all that we need to il
r sure safety in the compromising and di:
j pensing Of drugs.
qualified assistant under our presen
I law is one who has had two years exper
I enGe in drug store. Under this law
I will venture the assertion that there III
. been very few, if any, mistakes made
Z dispensing.
{ We are Of the opinion that those VIII
K learn the drug business III the drug store
d are equally competent, if not more SC,
"a many cases, than are those who o.
\ crammed with theory during the 81
!. months they sit upon the college benche
PENNSYLVANIA, by enactment, says Il
"A graduates Of her college in Philadelph
= are not qualified to run drug stores, al
70 before she will trust them to do SO this
must have successfully passed an exam
nation under the State Board OF Pha
macy, thus really Ignoring the diplomas
her own colleges.
at All we ask of our lawmakers is to 81
us fair treatment. and that we think tn
&c will do if they kill the Spruance Pharma
n bill. PHYSICIAN.
H. February GOTH 1893.
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