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Secret — Private — Personal. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
June,  1919. 
their  doors,  whose  advertisements  to  the  public  are  such  as  he  is, 
as  a  rule,  ethically  denied. 
Summing  it  up  from  this  angle  it  might  be  argued  that  private 
processes  earned  by  educational  accomplishments  by  a  legitimate 
pharmacist  (even  the  method  of  compounding  a  "  face  lotion  "  or  an 
elastic  pill)  take  nothing  from  others,  and  that  neither  law  nor 
justice  would  demand  that  a  pharmacist  deny  himself  the  privilege 
of  fair  business  returns  through  such  privacy.  Does  not  this  view 
prevail  throughout  the  length  and  breadth  of  the  land,  in  the  judg- 
ment of  the  public  generally,  and  is  it  not  also  most  generously 
accepted  by  the  practicing  members  of  the  profession  of  medicine? 
The  physician  naturally,  as  he  should,  recognizes  the  fairly-earned 
art  of  the  qualified  apothecary,  that  gives  him  an  individuality.  He 
comprehends  that  this  man  of  many  sacrifices  has  earned  the  right 
to  the  moderate  materialisic  return  that  comes  from  a  superiority 
bred  by  self-effort.  He  gladly  gives  to  him  his  professional  con- 
fidence, and  considers  it  his  privilege  to  recognize  merit  earned  by 
educational  sacrifice.  He  comprehends  that  the  operating  pharma- 
cist is  not  a  recompensed  teacher  of  others ;  that  no  professional 
fees,  paid  for  professional  services,  are  his  part;  that  his  duty  to 
the  world  is  best  accomplished  in  continued  private  efforts,  the 
material  results  of  which  he  can  apply  to  self-service  or  freely  give 
to  the  world,  as  he  so  desires. 
And — this  writer  also  believes  that  the  aim  of  the  faculty  of 
every  college  of  pharmacy  is  so  to  instruct  the  students  that  they 
may  have  this  superior  advantage  and  that  their  after-lives  may  thus 
be  made  less  irksome.  They  comprehend  that  the  pharmacist  is  of 
all  others  a  laborer  of  great  responsibility,  and  that  to  him  who  thus 
serves  others,  with  little  recompense  at  the  best,  applies  the  Scrip- 
tural injunction,  "  The  laborer  is  worthy  of  his  hire." 
But — and  this  writer  uses  now  the  first  person,  so  his  own  position 
be  not  misunderstood — no  pharmacist,  if  he  so  desires,  should  be 
denied  the  privilege  of  instructing  others,  even  to  the  wrecking  of 
his  private  interests.  In  this  I  go  even  further ;  the  art  of  pharmacy, 
the  prosperity  of  the  pharmacists  of  America,  both  dispensing  and 
manufacturing,  rest  largely  upon  sacrifices  made  of  private  oppor- 
tunities, by  teaching  pharmacists  of  the  olden  time ;  self-sacrificing 
pharmacists,  who,  in  the  privacy  of  their  shops  and  homes,  toiled, 
accomplished,  gave  and  taught.    The  names  of  a  great  number  come 
