Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1895 — Ways of Guileless Druggists. [ARTICLE]

Ways of Guileless Druggists.

“I noticed,” said the druggist to his assistant, “that a gentleman came in with a prescription, and that you took it and gave him the stuff in about three minutes. What do you mean by that?” “It was only a little carbolic acid and water,” replied the assistant. “I simply had to pour a few drachms of acid into the bottle and till it up with water.” < “Never mind if you only had to do that,” the druggist declared. “Don’t you know that every prescription must take at least half an hour to till or the customer will think he isn’tgettinganything for his money? When a prescription for salt and water or peppermint and cough syrup is handed to you you must look at it doubtfully,, as if it were very hard to make up. Then you must bring it to me, and we will both read it and shake our heads. After that you go back to the client and ask him if he wants it to-day. When he says he does you answer that you’ll make a special effort. “Now, a patient appreciates a prescription like that that he’s had so much trouble over, and when he takes it he derives some benefit from it. But don’t you do any more of that threeminute prescription business, my boy, if you want to become a first-class druggist.”