People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1893 — Drugstore Humor. [ARTICLE]

Drugstore Humor.

Drug clerks often derive amusement from the prescriptions that are left with them. A prescription which called for certain tablets, and which was written by a Chicago physician, was put up in a down-town pharmacy the other day. The directions were a* follows: “One tablet every two hours for five days, skip four days and commence again.” The pharmacist smiled when he wrote the label, and professional etiquette alone prevented him from asking the customer, who weighed about 180 pounds, if he thought he would survive after so much skipping. Another prescription caused the patient himself to laugh when he read the doctor’s directions, which were: “Take fifteen drops one hour after eating in a little water.” “I don’t eat in water,” said the man, “although I did chew an apple once when I was bathing at Long Branch.” Strangely spelt communications are often brought to the druggist. A woman handed a slip to a clerk recently, and said: “Gimme ten cents’ worth of that.” The clerk read, “Grocer’s Supplement.” “I guess you mean corrosive sublimate,” he said, “but that is poison, and we can’t sell it to you.” The woman went away after declaring that she wanted it to “kill boogs with.”