THE  AMERICAN 
JOURNAL  OF  PHARMACY 
SEPTEMBER,  1904. 
PHARMACY  AND  CHEMISTRY  AT  THE  WORLD'S  FAIR. 
Cakx  G.  Hinrichs,  Ph.C, 
Professor  of  Chemistry,  Marion-Sims  Dental  College. 
( Continued  from  p.  J75. ) 
III.  CHINA  I   ITS  DRUGGISTS,  MEDICINES  AND  CHEMICAL  MANUFACTURES. 
On  the  following  page  we  have  a  Chinese  note,  specially  writ- 
ten for  us  by  the  Imperial  Chinese  Secretary  to  the  readers  of  the 
American  Journal  of  Pharmacy.  Beginning  at  the  upper  right- 
hand  corner,  reading  down  the  column,  and  then  down  the  next  to 
the  left,  it  states :  "  We  invite  the  readers  of  America's  oldest  drug 
journal  to  see  the  Chinese  medicines  ;  "  and  it  will  well  repay  any  one 
to  spend  a  good  portion  of  his  time  studying  the  Chinese  exhibit 
shown  in  the  Liberal  Arts  Building. 
China  is  a  country  with  a  glorious  past,  and  the  centuries  of  ex- 
perience have  taught  all  trades  the  wisdom  of  our  trite  saying  that 
the  shoemaker  should  stick  to  his  last.  The  readers  will  then  not 
be  surprised  to  learn  that  the  Chinese  druggist  states  on  his  shop 
signs  that  he  sells  drugs  and  medicines  ;  also,  that  if  you  should 
ever  enter  such  a  store,  you  would  not  find  cigars,  soda-water,  sta- 
tionery, paints  or  glassware,  but  only  drugs  and  medicines.  The 
Chinese  druggist  makes  no  pretensions  to  being  a  professional 
man,  but  he  is  a  man  of  conscience,  for  no  Chinese  druggist  sells  a 
grain  of  opium  to  its  unfortunate  habitue.  Would  that  we  could 
say  as  much  for  our  entire  drug  trade  ! 
The  Chinese  drug-stores  are  similar  to  other  Chinese  shops ;  in 
size  they  vary  of  course  according  to  the  location,  size  of  town  and 
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