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11th. The original prescription should always be retained by 
the apothecary, whose warrantee it is, in case of error on the part 
of the prescriber. When a copy is requested, if, as in many in- 
stances, no objection can be urged, it should be a facsimile in 
language and symbols, and not a translation. 
12th. In no instance is an apothecary justifiable in leaving his 
business in charge of boys, or incompetent assistants — or in allow- 
ing such to compound prescriptions, excepting under his immedi- 
ate and careful supervision. 
13th. Injustice to his sense of the proper limits of his vocation, 
to the medical profession, and to his customers, the apothecary 
should abstain from prescribing for diseases, excepting in those 
emergencies, which occasionally occur, demanding immediate ac- 
tion, or, in those every day unimportant cases where to refuse 
council would be construed as a confession of ignorance, calculated 
to injure the reputation of the apothecary, and would be attended 
with no advantage to either physician or patient. 
14th. The sale of quack or secret medicines, properly so-called, 
constitutes a considerable item in the business of some apotheca- 
ries. Many of the people are favorably impressed towards that 
class of medicines, and naturally go to their apothecaries for them. 
It is this which has caused many apothecaries to keep certain of 
these nostrums, who are ready and willing to relinquish the traf- 
fic in them, but for the offence that a refusal to supply them to 
their customers, would create. At present all that the best disposed 
apothecary can be expected to do, is to refrain from the manufac- 
ture himself, of quack and secret medicines ; to abstain from re- 
commending them, either verbally or by exhibiting show-bills, 
announcing them for sale, in his shop or windows; and to dis- 
courage their use, when appealed to. 
15th. Having in view the welfare of the community and the 
advancement of pharmaceutic science and interest, it is all impor- 
tant that the offices of prescribing and compounding medicines 
should be kept distinct, in this city and surrounding districts. All 
connection with, or moneyed interest in apothecary stores on the 
part of physicians, should, therefore, be discountenanced. With 
respect to the pecuniary understanding said to exist in some in- 
stances, between apothecaries and physicians, we hold, that no 
well disposed apothecary or physician would be a party to such a 
contract, and consider the code of Ethics of the College of Phar- 
