Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-06

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 pestle, according to the unread
able hieroglyphics furnished by your
DOCTOR Then he is the druggist, and
not when he is selling tooth-brushes
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. il is much easier
and less expensive to acquire and also
takes less time. Fer 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
pires to be pharmacist or chemist
He doesn't need to have more educa-
ton than he would get by the first
year in high school. He doesn't re-
quire so much as that until two years
later, when he has to go away to
school; but it is easier to get 1t in the
beginning than afterward.
Get him job in drug store some
where at anything the proprietor will
give him to do, for he doesn't know
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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 Sc or
So or $40 week. according to his
usefulness and the generosity of his
employer, and should know a lot of
things about the way drug stores are
conducted, how to handle a pestle and
pound up crystals and powders and
things, and make himself generally
valuable.
Then he has to 60 to school and
take regular course of two years.
Here is where his preliminary expert
ence will be of value, as it 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
this need not be paid all at once. If
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
basis for this article, as most states
are generally alike in their require
ments, the leading niJersity has two
courses in pharmacy. One, the college
course, requires for admission the
equivalent of common school educa-
ton, including 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 licensed pharmacist.
Then there is the university course
Ito be admitted to which boy must
have the equivalent of full high
school education-which, after two
years, gives the degree of pharmaceu-
teal 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 a
little more advanced.
The course of study sounds formid-
able to one who knows nothing about
t, 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- |
mates of pharmacy, the theory of |
pharmacy, pharmacognosy (the art of |
applying scientific knowledge to the |
examination of drugs, posology |
Creating of doses and quantities of |
medicine), tsgicclcgy, biology and in
struction in the Inorganic and organic
divisions of drugs.
By the time he has completed this
your boy will probably have
decided whether he wishes more
schooling, which would equip him for
he higher phases of the business. or
10 go out as a practical druggist IF