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THE  NEW  DRUGSTORE1 
By  F.  B.  Kilmer 
Revisiting  the  city  where,  as  an  errand  boy,  I  entered  service, 
I  found  but  one  store  that  had  retained  its  former  location.  Of  the 
men  who,  in  my  time,  had  followed  this  calling  not  one  remained 
in  the  trade ;  they  had  sold  out,  retired,  died  or  moved  away.  The 
stores  had  changed,  the  men  had  disappeared — in  a  few  short  years 
the  old  order  of  things  had  passed  away. 
Is  not  this  instance  typical  of  the  general  movement  in  our 
trade?  The  old  order  changes — the  apothecary  has  gone — the 
doctor-shop  is  no  more.  There  remain  but  few  places  that  are 
classed  as  pharmacies — in  their  stead  has  come  a  new  order  of 
merchants — the  new  drugstore. 
Standing  in  front  of  the  new  drugstore  the  calamity  howler 
shouts : 
"  Pharmacy  is  going  backward  !  It  is  retrograding !  It  is  going 
downward !  It  is  being  ruined,  degraded,  commercialized  and  vul- 
garized !  " 
This  sentiment  is  pictorially  expressed  in  a  recent  cartoon, 
showing  a  customer  in  a  store,  who,  beholding  the  bargains,  the 
knickknacks,  the  bric-a-brac,  the  hammered  brass — all  sorts  and 
kinds  of  wares — everything  except  drugs,  bewilderingly  asks  the 
clerk : 
"  Will  you  be  kind  enough  to  direct  me  to  a  drugstore?  " 
1  Read  at  the  annual  meeting  of  the  New  Jersey  Pharmaceutical  Asso- 
ciation, June,  1913. 
