Report of Proceedings of the Illinois Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting Volume 22 (Paperback)

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. 1901 Excerpt: ...of a certain drug they always refer to the manufacturers' price lists to see what it is good for. These price lists are their text books. (Applause.) Mr. Arnold--My observation is that the dispensing by physicians is on the increase. If they have a real bad case they will write a prescription; otherwise they dish out some cheap tablet. Three or four physicians supply houses send men to our town regularly. Other towns in my county report the same condition. Mr. Bastei/w--There must be some cause for this self-prescribing and I would like to know if any one has a reason to assign for it. Mr. Wooten in his paper yesterday said it was the duty of the druggist to make the physician believe he was not the ignoramus he thought him to be. I think the physicians in my part of country think the druggists know too much and one reason they do not prescribe is their ignorance with regard to medicine. I have had prescriptions brought to me that were a disgrace to anybody. One of our doctors can not write the plainest kind of a prescription accurately. He never has prescribed, but simply furnishes samples that are left in his office, and every few days some one comes around and leaves a lot of samples. He uses these and occasionally buys a little extra to give out. Two other physicians whom I have had occasion to correct, or rather to ask them to correct prescriptions that were hastily written, were made angry and have quit prescribing on that account. They thought I knew too much; that I was too smart. The starting of this one man that I spoke of first has induced the others to follow his example. Another reason for this is the profit. It has been remarkably healthy in our part of the country and business has been slack with the physicians as well as the druggists, and t...