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of small remuneration and consequent distress, coupled with the equally acknow¬ 
ledged fact that pharmaceutists resort to various expedients in order to increase 
their trade returns. 
Does this most undesirable condition belong to pharmacy as such, or can we 
trace out a definite explanation ? Let me call your attention to the following 
advertisements ; they are selected with no care, and similar announcements 
may be found in the daily and monthly press, thick as leaves in Vallombrosa. 
I have retained the original print to show that they ■were no invention of my 
owm :— 
^0 SURGEONS and CHEMISTS.—For Immediate unreserved SALE, an established 
neatly-fitted SHOP, principal northern thoroughfare. Good opportunity for an active 
practitioner. Good house. Rent low. £42. Price £120. Stock reducible to £100. 
CHEMISTS and DRUGGISTS.—For Disposal, in Nottingham, a snug little Drug Busi¬ 
ness. Owner leaving on account of ill-health. This is an excellent opening for a business 
man. Price £120. 
Jij'OR IMMEDIATE DISPOSAL, a Light Retail and Prescribing Cash Counter Trade; 
well situated in one of the principal Market Towns of the West of England; commands 
a large neighbourhood. Capable of great increase by an energetic young man. Rent £30, 
could be more than half covered by subletting. Price, including Household Furniture, £250. 
•DO BE DISPOSED OP, in an increasing neighbourhood of a populous Town on the South 
Coast, a Drug and Prescribing Business; established three j^ears. Returns from £5 to 
£6 per week. Rent £18. Incoming £160. 
rpO CHEMISTS and DRUGGISTS.—For Immediate Disposal, a beautiful SHOP, with 
an excellent Business, near the Wandsworth Road, Vauxhall. Amount required £250. 
TN a beautiful Watering Place on the South Coast, an excellent and rapidly increasing 
Business, with valuable Lease of Premises. Price £150. The opportunity is specially 
Worth the attention of a Gentleman from one of the leading London Houses. 
TMMEDIATELY, the Business of a Chemist and Druggist, situate in one of the best tho- 
roughfares of a large Town in the Midland Counties. Established twenty-one years. 
Price about £120. 
TN a First-class Agricultural District. A fine opening for a Young Man of tact. Stock and 
**• Fixtures nearly new, and of the best description, at Valuation. No Goodwill. Incoming 
about £200. 
O O fi To be disposed of, in consequence of severe indisposition, a Retail, Dispensing, 
Prescribing Business, situated in the best part of a pretty Town in SuiTey. 
Established twenty-five years. 
A SMALL Retail and Prescribing Business, well situated in a leading thoroughfare of a 
good Market-Town. The prospects of increasing Trade are exceRent. Price £115. 
TN a populous neighbourhood at the North End^ a Prescribing and Light Retail Business. 
Profits large. Rent low. Price £120. 
TN a great thoroughfare and populous district, a good Retail and Prescribing Business, well 
suited for a Medical Man, with a branch Post-Office attached. Purchase, £250. 
the South End, a neat Dispensing and Prescribing Business. 
Price £200. 
A BUSINESS in a leading thoroughfare in the City of London, returning £8 weekljn 
Entrance £150. 
A N excellent opportunity for a man with small Capital. A profitable Prescribing Business, 
in a large Manufacturing Town in Lancashire. Present retirrns £250 per annmn, 
capable of increase. Profits large. Rent £14. Incoming £70. Satisfactory reasons for 
disposal. 
RETAIL and Prescribing Business, complete for £40. Rent £20 per annum. 
There is no special providence watching over pharmacy ; certain causes pro¬ 
duce certain effects, and it is true in pharmacy as in every other trade whatever, 
£X niliilo nihil Jit^ of nothing nothing comes. 
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