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xxvi North Carolina Board of Health. It is not necessary to quote more of this thorough paper to show at what a great disadvantage physicians may be jDlaced by the varying quality of the drugs they prescribe or dispense. The harm here indicated is yearly becoming greater owing to the increasingly wide separation of pharmacy from the practice of medicine. The profession seems to dread the stigma once placed upon the apothecary in the Seventeenth Century, by Boyelin. " The druggist must be mindful that he is but the physician's cook," says this quaint old author, but the physician would be far more mindful of his own interests if he knew enough to direct this cooh, or do the " cooking "�the selection and preparation of his own drugs. This is impossible in most cases, but it does not release the physician of the responsibility of being well trained in pharmacognosy, so that he will have the ability to detect in what particulars any given remedy is not yielding the expected results. The practice of buying supplies of drugs from dealers who give the best terms and sell the cheapest articles, may cost the physician in the end bitter disappointment, and sometimes great damage to his practice. It is decidedly a retrogression to give up the drilling of students in the appearances and qualities of drug substances. The physician who teaches his students thoroughly the art of pharmacognosy is doing more to bring about a new era in the quality of drugs sold, than the fortunate committee that succeeds in getting an anti-adulteration law through our Legislature. " the relation of nostrums to the public health " is becomiug an important public question. A few years ago a chemist by the name of Hoffman issued an almanac as a set off to the flood of patent medicine almanacs distributed in many languages all over the land. Mr. Hoffman conceived the idea that by carefully analyzing the various secret preparations on the market, he would demonstrate
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Fixed Title * | NCHH-14: Transactions of the � Annual Meeting of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina [1868-1886] |
Document Title | Transactions of the � Annual Meeting of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina [1868-1886] |
Subject Topical | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Societies, etc. |
Subject Topical Other | Societies, Medical -- North Carolina. |
Creator | Medical Society of the State of North Carolina. Meeting. |
Publisher | Raleigh, N.C. : Medical Society of the State of North Carolina, 1868-1886. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1882 |
Identifier | NCHH-14-029 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
Digital Collection | North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection |
Sponsor | The North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection is an open access publishing initiative of the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Financial support for the initiative was provided in part by a multi-year NC ECHO (Exploring Cultural Heritage Online) digitization grant, awarded by the State Library of North Carolina, and funded through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). |
Volume Number | 29 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
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Fixed Title * | Page xxvi |
Document Title | Transactions of the � Annual Meeting of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina [1868-1886] |
Subject Topical | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Societies, etc. |
Subject Topical Other | Societies, Medical -- North Carolina. |
Creator | Medical Society of the State of North Carolina. Meeting. |
Publisher | Raleigh, N.C. : Medical Society of the State of North Carolina, 1868-1886. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1882 |
Identifier | NCHH-14-029-0230 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Page Type | all; report/review |
Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
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Digital Collection | North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection |
Sponsor | The North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection is an open access publishing initiative of the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Financial support for the initiative was provided in part by a multi-year NC ECHO (Exploring Cultural Heritage Online) digitization grant, awarded by the State Library of North Carolina, and funded through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). |
Volume Number | 29 |
Page Number | xxvi |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
Full Text | xxvi North Carolina Board of Health. It is not necessary to quote more of this thorough paper to show at what a great disadvantage physicians may be jDlaced by the varying quality of the drugs they prescribe or dispense. The harm here indicated is yearly becoming greater owing to the increasingly wide separation of pharmacy from the practice of medicine. The profession seems to dread the stigma once placed upon the apothecary in the Seventeenth Century, by Boyelin. " The druggist must be mindful that he is but the physician's cook" says this quaint old author, but the physician would be far more mindful of his own interests if he knew enough to direct this cooh, or do the " cooking "�the selection and preparation of his own drugs. This is impossible in most cases, but it does not release the physician of the responsibility of being well trained in pharmacognosy, so that he will have the ability to detect in what particulars any given remedy is not yielding the expected results. The practice of buying supplies of drugs from dealers who give the best terms and sell the cheapest articles, may cost the physician in the end bitter disappointment, and sometimes great damage to his practice. It is decidedly a retrogression to give up the drilling of students in the appearances and qualities of drug substances. The physician who teaches his students thoroughly the art of pharmacognosy is doing more to bring about a new era in the quality of drugs sold, than the fortunate committee that succeeds in getting an anti-adulteration law through our Legislature. " the relation of nostrums to the public health " is becomiug an important public question. A few years ago a chemist by the name of Hoffman issued an almanac as a set off to the flood of patent medicine almanacs distributed in many languages all over the land. Mr. Hoffman conceived the idea that by carefully analyzing the various secret preparations on the market, he would demonstrate |
Digital Format | JPEG 2000 |
Print / Download PDF Version | http://archives.hsl.unc.edu/nchh/nchh-14/nchh-14-029.pdf |
Document Sort | all; group-d; nchh-14 |
Volume Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/identi/searchterm/NCHH-14-029 |
Title Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/documa/searchterm/NCHH-14 |
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