The Cordova daily times., 1922-07-19
NEW PHARMACY ISESTABLISHED
 BY AMERICANS

lCSulcil EalhCllIau ui us oIclC III Vloo- COW and an American woman gradu- ate pharmacist in charge of it.
 It is the free drug shop opened re- gently, -hy the Medical Division of the American Relief, Association for the free dispensing of drugs to persons who apply with a prescription from a reputable physician of Moscow.
 Carolone Klein Robbins, graduate of the Brooklyn College of Phar- macy, is in charge.
 q never@ expected to see an Ameri- can drug store in Russia" she said, "nor to have the opportunity to help open one"
 This drug store will be a most beneficial adjunct to the large pro- gramme of medical relief being car ried out by the American Relief Ad- ministration in the hospitals, public homes and dispensaries of Moscow. The American Relief Administration, under the direction of Dr. Henry Beeuwkes, Chief of the Medical Di- vision, and Dr. William Nicklesen, Medical Supervisor of the Moscow District, is supplying these public in stitutions for the care of children and the sick of all ages with every thing they need to carry on their work of relief of pain and desease.
 The medical supervisor goes into a hospital, where perhaps there is not a hypodermic needle, thermom- eter, a box of quinine a bottle of ether a hot-water bottle, an X-ray, plate, an icebag, or a blanket. When he comes out and makes his alloca- tion of medicines, hospital equipment, including surgical instruments, blan- kets, sheets, pajamas and bed slip pers-which can be delivered just as soon as the hospital sends a con- veyance to the medical warehouse he leaves behind him a fully equip ped institution.
 The newly drug shop will be situated in a fine white stone building, once the home of Profess sor Katuar, an eminent painist, of Moscow. Up the wide Empire stair case, with it's marble steps and bronze rails, where once women in brocaded satins and men in evening clothes marched to the strains of the orchestra, there will soon be seen a procession of a quite different charac- ter. Women seeking medicines to cure their babies of pain and men searching for the remedies that may save the lives of their wives or mothers will come here to the drug shop and present the prescriptions which their physicians or dispen- sary has given them
 The reason for the opening of this free drug dispensary by the Ameri- can Relief Administration is the al- most total lack of drugs in this city and the inability of the people to pay for the few that can be obtained. It is said that practically the only drugs in Moscow are to be found on the common market, and these are not of standard make and possess slight medicinal value. Quinine, for example, has been extremely eXpen- siye and almost unobtainable. There is great need for this drug in Russia because of the large amount of ma laria each year.
 This pharmacy has the heartiest endorsement of the Moscow Board Of Health. That body has furnished the building and all equipment, includ- ing counters, shelves, bottles and scales. These were obtained from To- cal drug stores that were compelled to close because of lack of supplies.
 A list of reputable physicians i'll Moscow has been compiled by the Moscow Board of Healht and the Medical Division of the American Relief Administration, and to these physicians has been given the list of some drugs on hand n the medical warehouse for distribution in Rus sia. Physicians will be able to con- form their prescriptions to these drugs. Certain bases and elixirs for the making of prescriptions, which the American Relief Administration did not have in stock, will be con- tributed by the Board ' Health.