Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1907 — A New Pharmacy Precaution. [ARTICLE]

A New Pharmacy Precaution.

With the bottle of medicine the druggist handed out a slip of paper. “What is that?” asked the customer. “A list of the things you should not eat while taking this medicine,” said the druggist. “Possibly the doctor neglected to give you instructions about that. Very often the doctors do forget Druggists used to be equally careless, and most of them are yet, but we finally came to be accused of so many mistakes of which we were guiltless that in order to save our own reputation and that of the drug trade In general we established a school of dietetics. In so many cases where complaints were made about the medicine not having the desired effect we were accused of using inferior drugs, whereas it was injudicious eating that caused the evil results.”—Chicago Inter Ocean.