Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-11-24
WOMEN DRUGGISTS.
q BUSINESS PARTICULARLY
FITTED FOR THEM.
There Are in the Emitted states between
800 and 100 Women WHO Have Re-
eslVed the Degree of Ph. Gone Of
ihs shrewdest Drug Buyers.

u Is considerably less than half a
century since the first woman phaima-
clst was graduated from one OF the
oldest colleges Of pharmacy 10 Amer
lca. About the same time women be-
gan 20 conceive the idea Of studying
medicine and to-day the women phy-
sleians throughout the land are legion:
whereas. while nearly an the schools
Of pharmacy OF recognized standing
admit women upon The same terms as
men, the former have not awaited
themselves Of the privileges accorded
them a. readily as the latter.
For Instance, there are, altogether.
between POO and 900 women in the
United States who have received the
degree Of Ph. G., the majority Of whom
have charge Of the drug rooms Of
various hospitals, or are engaged as
dispensing clerks by some Of the larger
AAd more progressive druggists. a
few have drug stores 0i their own ami
10 their credit II Is said that none OF
them were ever held responsible for
errors IN compromising prescriptions.
which has 20 often happened TO apoth-
ecaries who have had inefficient or
careless assistants Indeed, there Is
no profession or business where 80
much depends upon what may be
termed mathematical precision. or as a
professor al one 81 our PHILADELPHIA
colleges Of pharmacy periincntly put
h, 'ihe precision Of eNaciness
II il invariably conceded that NO.
men ARE more thorough Ia Whatever
they undertake than he opposite per-
suasion says ihe Philadelphia Times;
that thry are moreover. endowed with
tact and a faculty for calculating re-
suits with wonderful rapidly. all Of
which traiis makes rery practicable
and much-io.be-desired tout ensemble
for anyone contemplating the study Of
pharmacy
oi ooutne ,ho salaries FOR dispensing
clerks Are graded according Ia the
place they SID the average h from
forty 10 seyeniy-iye dollars per month.
Women occupying the positions 81
chief pharmacists Ia large hospitals
arr paid anywhere from six 10 nine
hundred dollars per annum.
A New England apotheasry, whose
name i almost household word In
the Hub. was recently asked TO assign
his reasons FOR always employing wo-
men in the prescription department Of
his establishment In preference 10
men. Ills reply was brief and 10 the
point.
because We can always depend
upon them. We know not only where
10 find them but how 10 find them. No
big heads. no mistakes. hence no suits
for damages resulting from careless
reading u prescriptions.
One Of the largest wholesale drug
houses In this country has In IT, employ
a woman Ph. g. a. buyer, paying her
an annual salary representing three
cyphcrs with fair-slSed numcral be-
ioro them. She travels all over En-
rnpc IN their interest, and Is reported
10 b. ono 81 the smOothcst buyers in
the foreign trade. She Is the first and
a. So, the only woman 10 iill such a po-
siiiou
several manufacturing chemists em-
ploy women pharmacists 10 different
capacities, Much Of the analytical
work. such ~ testing for the purpose
u ascertaining tho identity, purity and
strength Of the drugs and Preparations
named Ia The pharmacopu'in, Is now
being done by women. who besides.
thcir regular course Of study. have
paid special attention 10 grayimetric
and volumeiric methods 81 analysis
a word more as to how the women
pharmacists are received by the male
members o. the profession. There is
absolutely no discrimination between
them. They are admitted to the va
rious state associations as well as TO
the national pharmaceutical associa-
ton. Everywhere the men welcome
the woman druggist. There is no
spirit 81 rivalry On the contrary.
she Is regarded by the more broad
minded men as an innovation rather
than as an oncroachment
But not every woman can become
druggist: any more than every man
can become lawyer, doctor or minis
ter. There must be that within one
which shows there is some special
adapiahility for the work. then follows
three years at a phurmaceutialcollege,
where theoretical training Is supple
mentcd by mastery Of practical minor
details.
Then another year as assistant or
articled clerk IN order TO understand
the modus operandi Of an everyday
pharmacy. after which you may turn
your thoughts 20 obtaining perma-
ncni position in either hospital, with
retail or wholesale druggist or II
means permit and aspirations justify.
hang out a mortar and pcstlc Of your
own. in which case you will be well
patrouized and your fellow .pharma-
lists will wish you success.
Quiet Rubber.
old Black Bass DO you see that