The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1895-05-16
THE DRUGGISTS AND DR.. CARR.
They Make the Fight for a Principle
The Question of His Right to Hold
the Position of Druggist at the
Insane Asylum.
(COmmunicated.l

Communicated
The fight of the druggists against the
appointment of DIR. John B. Carr as drug
gist at the Insane Asylum is extending
and getting livelier. 1t is not personal
fight but one for principle. They contend
that DR.. Carr, to hold the position, must
go before the State Board of Pharmacy
and pass an examination. The leading
newspap ers devoted to pharmacy will take
up this matter. Mr.. Augustus Bradley is
leading the fight. and the druggists and
physicians are backing him.-Ra leigh
Ecening Visitor.
1t is an undisputed fact that DR.. John
B. Carr is not, and has never been, Il
registered pharmacist. The pharmacy
law, section 3137 of the Code, declares:
No person. unless a registered pharma-
cist within the meaning of this chapter,
except as hereinafter provided, shall open
up or conduct any pharmacy or store for
retailing. dispensing or compromising
medicines or pOlsOnS, nor shall any one
not registered pharmacist prepare physi-
clans prescription except under the super
vision of registered pharmacist.
And section 3145 provides:
ANY person who shall permit, by willful
neglect, the compromising and dispensing
of prescriptions in his store or place Of
registered except under the supervision OF
a registered pharmacist, or any person not
registered who shall keep open shop for
the retailing or dispensing of medicines or
poisons shall, for every such
offence, be guilty of a misdemeanor and
liable to penalty not exceeding $500.
1t is admitted that DR.. Carr is not, and
never has been, a registered pharmacist.
The question, therefore, arises as to
whether or not DR.. Carr and the Superin-
tendent and Directors of the Asylum are
liable to these penalties? Section 3147
of the Code specifically declares that it
shall be the duty Of the sheriff to see that this taw
Is enforced.
Only short time ago drug store in
Goldsboro was closed by the sheriff
under this law. Does the State propose
to ride rough shod over law which the
ordinary druggists are forced to obey?
The afflicted inmates at the Insane
Asylum should have their medicines
prepared by skillful druggist. This
fact, together with the hundreds of
inmates and employees who are treated
from the Asylum drug store, makes the
office OF druggist there mostimportanr
one. Such being the case why was no
notice given of the vacancy, and OF the
election, SO that skilled druggists could
apply and the Board could select the
best material?
Why were the hundreds of sober, hard
working, competent, registered druggists in
the State ignored, and an office hereto
fore filled by a registered druggist, of more
than thirty years experience, given to
DR.. Carr, who is not now, and has never
been, a druggist?
One would suppose that four salaries
frov ha TO TO h0 ,x,,{ mt
grasping for more.
The latter day policy has required
every man to resign his office if there was
the slightest tinge of doubt about his
right to hold it, and by reason of this
fact the State has already lost the
services of some of our best straightOut
Democrats and most competent citizens
If this policy be enforced at all, let it be
meted out to all alike.
DIR. Carr's friends claim that he has, Or
will, apply to be registered as druggist
WITHOUT standing any examination.
Whether he will be permitted to do
this remains to be seen. In the mean
time it may denoted that the law declares
that one OF the fundamental objects of
the incorporation of the Pharmaceutical
Association is to ultimately restrict the
practice Of pharmacy to properly qualified drug
gists and apothecaries.
Mr.. VIM. Simpson, the Secretary of our
Association, writes in the Neus and Observer
of May 9Th, as follows:
The Legislature of 1891 SO amended the
Pharmacy Aci as to restrict this privilege
Fright of physicians to register without
examinatiOn) to those physicians who are
residents of towns of 800 inhabitants and
less. so that now physician must pass the
examination of the Board Of Pharmacy in
order to register as a pharmacist, unless,
as provided above, he be resident of and
conJine his practice as a pharmacist to touns
of 800 inhabitants or less.
DR.. Carr's own oath that he is an
actual bona fde resident of Raleigh, city
with population of about 10000, has
knocked the stuffing out of the Old
Sparta 800 inhabitants dodge.
If DR.. Carr desires to stop the practice
OF medicine and become druggist, let
him toe the mark like the other young
men of the State and stand the examina-
ton which they have to stand and thus
prove his competency; and when the
State goes to elect druggist, don't let
it ride over the hundreds OF sober, hard
working, competent, registered druggists
in the State to select man who is not,
and has never been, druggist, and then,
after the mistake is made, try to patch
it up by having the elect register as a
druggist without requiring him to stand
any examination to prove his competency.
Ii such thing was attempted in an
ordinary case the sheriff would be on
hand as he was in Goldsboro.
Very truly,
AUGUSTUS BRADLEY