This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ...pharmacists have during the past year tried to correct the liquor evil that threatens to make dram shops of the drug stores. In almost all instances the large body of druggists have raised a hue and cry against such reformation. The result as a rule has been that the police took hold of the matter and made the culprit ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ...pharmacists have during the past year tried to correct the liquor evil that threatens to make dram shops of the drug stores. In almost all instances the large body of druggists have raised a hue and cry against such reformation. The result as a rule has been that the police took hold of the matter and made the culprit wince. The same is true of the offences against poison registry. When will druggists learn to correct these evil themselves? 2.) Our status of pharmaceutical education is too low even for reasonable demands made by reasonable legislation. Only a small percentage of the druggists in the United States have been through a college course in pharmacy, and only a small percentage of pharmaceutical graduates are capable of testing the articles they buy and dispense. Even these, on account of excessive competition, are compelled to devote their time so largely to purely commercial matters that they could not examine their goods even if they were inclined to do so. Colleges have not held high enough the standard of education. They have often become veritable drug-mills. State boards could not be expected to maintain higher standards than those by which they had been measured. Here lies the fundamental error in the present situation. It is lack of suitable education all around. The public has created laws ofttimes fostered by office-seeking and office-giving politicians. The druggists have not been educated up to the requirements of the newly created laws. Men are placed in office for political belief or pull, not because they have been educated for such positions. A clash is the inevitable result. It is really surprising that we have not had more of them under existing circumstances. Let us not display our temper and denounce all pharmaceutical legisla...
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