The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-08-20

thoroughly familiar with the prepare
IONS they used in a doctors .prescrip
tion, for they had prepared them with
their own hands: They made a fair
profit on their labor, just as the shoe
ing, his leather. twine and wax in
making shoes
Those We're the. days OF rhubarb
aloes, tpecac and jalap, and we sold
more blue mass then in one day than
we sell now In five years The fact
Is, the people seem to have forgotten
blue mass. or all the things we sold
in former times there is nothing left
but calomel, and that's now put up in
common thing for a doctor to prescribe
ten grains of calomel for an adult,
when now they prescribe a quarter of
grain. to be taken every hour or
two until two or three grains have
been taken.
The man who ran n drug store
lines OF legitimate pharmacy. would
they were now living they would cry
ward 1t is retrograding, 1t is going
downward. 1t ia being ruined, de-
how can it Be heipe ei The anew NEW drug rug
store and new druggist has come
IN, and the business, which was once
looked upon as high and noble pro
fession, has been degraded" and is
now, like all other general stores, a
ton OF the times has made it so. Young
men with advanced ideas and with the
idea Of accommodating money and that
sponslble for the change. but ali tho
blame for It cannot be laid on them.
Formerly the doctors and the drug
store had it's quota Of friends in the
medical profession. and they. as we'll
as the pro aiao6 Mt Large prescribed
we made n profit.
But how is It to-day? I'll venture
to assert that the younger, generation
belong to the older set. write 90 per
cent OF their prescriptions, for things
that are made up in the labor i lies
larger cities of the North or in Europe.
thereby giving them the profit which
was once made by us. ~
many of these things are great i'm
rrovement on tho older remedies. but
our show windows with attractive
stuff to catch the eyes of the people.
We can no longer sell them our medi-
cincs. and we must catch 'em with
tafyi Formerly the only use we made
Of our windows was to let the people
see that 1t was drug store.
Sometimes strangers como in now
and ask where they can find drug
store. Formerly the average customer
to enlighten them. Now they come
in and cali for things about which
anything at all, and even little boys
and girls come in and ask for aspirin
tablets with as much confidence as
they would call for glass of soda
water.
Formerly the people had their trad
ing places when in need of medicines,
and there were n great many citizens
who would have thought themselves
poisoned il they took prescription
10 any other place than one of two
well-known stores That is not so
to-day. for the people are going to
their homes or their Offices. and i Is
only n question of whether they nave
confidence In the honesty and INTEGRITY
of the man who compounds their pre-.
scriptions. Even the telephone doesn't
takc the place of the numerous little
negroes who were kept busy running
pyramids for "Ole Miss or Ole Mars.,
and the far-away drug stores suher
from that cause, too.
a brief span Of n quarter of a CEN
fury has brought movements that are
the drug. store adds to its line OF
merchanaise-so much 80 that druEs
and medicines occupy but a small place
in variety of stock, and In rev
years the practicing physicians Will
furnish their patients. Just ms we do
now for tina most part from tho