Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1890 — Prescriptions in English. [ARTICLE]

Prescriptions in English.

It is rather a serious piece of professional conventionalism which compels a parent to stand beside the thin veil that separates his child from eternity with medicines in his hand of the character of which he knows nothing,except that they were called for in Latin and Greek hieroglyphics, and furnished by some druggist of whose competency he may also know nothing. A drop too much, an innocent oversight in the method of application, or' any other mistake growing out of an ignorance of what he is handling, may be sufficient to decide the chances of life. People have the right to know what they are administering to their loved ones.