Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-04

| physicians who are willing to thus act
as panders to drug fends are few. In
fact the medical profession IS q class
| is OF the highest and cleanest and best
qualified Internationally and mentally
professions in this and other countries.
! 1t is safe to predict that ninety-hve OUT
of every hundred physicians in lows
will agree with the druggists on this
point, And it is a different point and
has nothing to do with the "N-A-R-D'
COS, mark. That is commercial prop
osition. As TO the doctors fee bin and
its fixing of prices that also is com
mercial proposition mot a professional
one 10 the pharmacist or the physician
or the public that patronizes both. That
is a question OF legal right and not OF
professional privilege.
it Was common 20 step in 10 the fam
lily physician and get doe to write a
prescription which called for Spis.
Fran. Q. .. j. or -Spts. VIM cailie.
jumpers o. other magical words
and symbols which translated by the
pl@asan. gentleman behind the counter
stood for different varieties OF LIQUID
argument and enthusiasm from whisky
to gin. Doc wrote il because the Pc
,.,ione- was ore OF his patients. be
cause in those days good many 81
the profession sympathlzed with the
peculiar thirst with which the patient
was afflicted and quite often because
he believed the lar sGbversiye OF the
personal liberty OF the citizen to st.na :
la.e himself to the point o. running the
farm team SIX miles home under che
whip Bu, ;here has been as greaz a
change in the profession as in public
sentiment since then. The physician
wbo - ready to write a prescription
for a 5ooaer who couldn't get j, else.
Is scarce as the man who figured on
getting oreide every time he came 20
Town
The honest fact IS that the coke Ae:.d
would have 70 hunt to ind docto-
nowadays willing TO prescribe mis- poi
soy. for the fee received for writing =
prescription. No doubt he could End
9 few scattered here and there in ,iis
smaller cities and towns along with
professional ebort.on.sts and rani;
quacks. But rot many The larger
49,. -s-- ---.- rcr5;-y ra--
,!acates % practice who carry On
y-iciouS practice. g.T= certificates q
health to inmates o. b-othelz and pro-
f: in the sale Of stinulants and mar
eotics to victims 0: habit But that
class Is pariah class among the dos
tors. And without any manner Of
doubt the medical profession would
gladly tu-n them over 70 the merc:es
OF an iron clad statute.
There IS no occasion Tor war and
elimination between the druggists and
the doctors. Each profession has much
70 be proud Of and somewhat % shame
10 conceal or acknowledge. The thing
10 DO Is for the reputa Die druggists
and Inc reputable PHYSICIANS 10 clean
house. The druggists should get the
certificate OF the pharmacist *ho
makes coke dive ard 2 whisky shop
OF his store and disgraces his pro-
tezsio.: and the medical societies
should assist ard urge ne proper au-
taori,ies 10 take the right 70 practice
from the 6oc-or VINO welcomes NAL
practice. Incidentally the bar aszocia-
t3c-s and district Judges could DO com
m,nities much good were they 10 elm
inata q certain minority class 81 Law
ye-z rom membership n professional
associations and 10 protect ,hsi- own
profession by disbarr.ng those whom
they hold IN contempt and az danger
ous when they talk freely 20 friends
or together.