Rocky Ford enterprise., 1910-12-30

SXky He may be good fellow
X and amiable enough to
Is different being to outside eyes
when he retires behind the partition
In the back of the drug store and be-
gins to pour out mysterious and evil
smelling things and pound them up
with a pestle, according to the unread
able hieroglyphics furnished by your
doctor. Then he is the druggist. and
not when he is selling toothbrushes
or Ice cream soda.
This compromising of drugs has
risen to a profession during the last
few years. comparatively speaking. Of
almost equal Importance with the So
called higher ones OF medicine and
surgery. However, It is much easier
and less expensive to acquire and also
takes less time. For instance. your
boy may be a fully equipped and
licensed pharmacist by the time he Is
nineteen: but he could not be much
of a doctor so early In life.
At fifteen years is about the time
you should send out your son who as
plres to be a pharmacist or chemist.
lie doesn't need to have more educa-
tion than he would get by the first
year In n high school He doesn't re-
quIre so much as that until two years
later. when he has to go away to
school: but II is easier to get II in the
beginning than afterward.
Get him a job in a drug store some
where at anything the proprietor will
give him to do. for he doesn't know
enough yet to be more than a roust.
about in the store, washing bottles.
sweeping out. running errands. etc.
This will start him on sort OF ap-
premiership. which should continue
for a couple Of years. At the end OF
that time he should be drawing $6 or
IS or $40 n week. according to his
usefulness and the generosity Of his
employer. and should know lot of
things about the way drug stores are
conducted. how to handle pestle and
pound up crystals and powders and
things. and make himself generally
valuable.
Then he has to go to school and
take a regular course OF two years.
Here is where mis- preliminary expert
ence will be OF value. as II will enable
him to work his way through without
costing you anything: for. In a large
city like New York or Chicago. for in.
stance. he can arrange to work half
the time and go to school the other
half. and the money he earns will be
enough. probably. TO pay his expenses.
The total cost of taking the two years
course amounts to about $500: but
10. al At
you have money enough to pay his
way through. SO much the better
There are various scholarships open
to him. The school year lasts usually
for thirty weeks.
Taking New York conditions as q
basis for this article. as most states
are generally alike in their require
ments. the leading university has two
courses in pharmacy. One. the college
course, requires for admission the
equivalent Of a common school educa,
ton, including n year in high school
and at the end of two years bestows
the degree of graduate in pharmacy
which qualities your boy to take the
state examination necessary to be
come a licensed pharmacist
Ihen there Is the university course
TO be admitted to which a boy mus:
have the equivalent of a full higt
school education-which. after two
years, gives the degree of pharmaceu
tical chemist and carries admission
without examination into the surgical
and medical college, and also into the
graduate courses leading to the de
gree OF doctor of pharmacy. These
Two courses are alike in all essentials
except that the university course is q
little more advanced.
The course of study sounds formid
able to one who knows nothing about
Il, for the specially, OF course. is chem
istry, which is elaborated upon
through all the stages of analytical
pharmaceutical. organic and inorganic
chemistry. Then there are the mathe
Inatics OF pharmacy. the theory OF
pharmacy. pharmacognosy (the art oi
applying scientific knowledge to the
examination OF drugsl. posology
creating of doses and quantities oi
medicine). toxicology. biology and in
struction in the inorganic and organic
divisions of drugs.
BY the time he has completed this
course. your boy will probably have
decided whether he wishes more
schooling, which would equip him fol
the higher phases OF the business. oI