Excerpt from Nostrums The replies received have not been very numerous or very satisfactory, but they show that the percentage of patent and proprietary medicines sold varies greatly in different retail stores, and is large almost in propor tion to the modern character of the store; there being still left in Philadelphia a few old-time apothecaries who have been able to bring down from the past a legitimate trade for prescriptions and drugs, in which the proprietary medicines form but a small part. Ao cording to the ...
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Excerpt from Nostrums The replies received have not been very numerous or very satisfactory, but they show that the percentage of patent and proprietary medicines sold varies greatly in different retail stores, and is large almost in propor tion to the modern character of the store; there being still left in Philadelphia a few old-time apothecaries who have been able to bring down from the past a legitimate trade for prescriptions and drugs, in which the proprietary medicines form but a small part. Ao cording to the answers I received, in the modern drug store the proprietary articles appear to constitute from 50 to 60 per cent. Of the sales. The magnitude of the change is further shown in the fact that twenty years ago there were in the city of Philadelphia about thirty wholesale drug stores; today, I am informed there are but six, not including those who sell medicines not to the drug trade, but to country stores. More than this, according to a mem ber of a successful firm, most of these wholesale drug stores are kept alive by their own specialties, a purely distributing house being almost unknown; and three fourths of the business is further said to be the sell ing, not of standard drugs, but of proprietary articles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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