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Dishonest Druggists

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Parent Issue
Day
3
Month
October
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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Patients often wonder why it is that plivsicians are so positive in tlieir ini structions as to the drug ptore at whidi j prescriptions are to be tilled. says the St. Louis Crlobe-Democrat. Nearly every ■ physiciatr U3es preserjption blanks furnished by a druggist in whom he has confidente, hearing pon them the full name and addras of .the favored dispen.ser of drugs. Krequently when a disease faila to yield to poweiful remedies, preacribed the attending pbysician asks anxioualy where the prescriptfon was fiiied, and sora.etimes insiste -on-satisfying hiatself by a glance at theabelson th baúles or boxea, lt isa matte oí ouirent gOSSlp tbat therp ík a ...finnnoinl un4oi. sUiuding .bet ween tbe. phjmeian, a-ad the . clr.nggist, .and.thatr in additfon to to stjpulüted; fees,:thtH fonnev -get. p. Brpentiigdon tüe amonut (tUargl fop Weíflí;ia-. the, nieolicsin.es; caHad -iu the.seies ofviiieroglyphics'whkrhjgo w ,!ÍÍP6crotia.n.::Tli;e. ooili qf (itjiic?, irtietic as ;lL:is:.-in soift.oi:Ka sto.tenfi-iu.s and raquineraeots.) hmiSi last.-,tbe eri-t of.vleaeaiid6..pr,öfesa rake-off-oiiisc.ftio&49.a distinct breach of .ihsjrict ,cpdeL,l,ws laid iawn for the. guiü.yiH'e.of ,tte on-Hlii'ai professiófi. Tbe, jtyptors ,; tfremsei v.es are praotlcally a unit Ja dehyingtHat hey have any hpjiippHS understanaing.at aUiVlWi ye tüuig .tnade or a,ny meinljB). pf-it. .They.&iye,a.reason or; insiti'ng up,on lilnigg'iiHs ber 0$ Ríuroimea the;langF,,at is iar curied. from an offeneey whichri;n aonie cases,. i& an actual crime, and whiete is known among doctors, iiurse ad druggists as í'substitution.'f Sosae:physicians, witli a view to still fuitliciprptectipg their reputation and their clients' ijgaUh, prescribe special coinpounds. uader ñames and signe known onJy to themselves and the particular dniggists -in whom they place cont} dence. Otjiers, who are of a less iiivntive turn' of mind, prscribe drugs recogniged in the national and -inter-t national, pharmacopoeia, but but distinqtly decline to assume responsibility for a case if their prescriptions are fllled abany drig store whicü happens to be eonvenient for patiënt Or his nurses.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Register