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ADDRESS. 
of  professional  honor  keep  you  in  the  line  which  has  been  mark- 
ed out  for  your  pursuit  ;  let  no  temptation  allure  you  into  a 
compromise  with  principle  ;  determine  to  execute  your  known 
duties,  in  the  right  spirit,  and  the  reward  will  be  the  confidence, 
respect  and  patronage  of  your  friends  and  neighbors. 
Some  of  you  propose  to  pursue  the  vocation  of  a  druggist 
or  wholesale  dealer  in  drugs  for  supplying  the  dispenser.  Are 
you  fully  imbued  with  a  knowledge  of  its  peculiar  responsibili- 
ties ?  Are  you  prepared  to  resist  the  temptation  to  sell  worthless 
drugs,  held  out  by  the  demands  of  the  ignorant  and  unprin- 
cipled, to  whom  cheapness  is  the  rule  ?  have  you  deter- 
mined to  exercise  the  knowledge  and  skill,  just  now  so  honora- 
bly accorded  to  you,  in  upholding  the  quality  of  imported  drugs, 
and  in  protecting  the  well-disposed,  though  ignorant,  who  may 
come  to  you  in  good  faith  to  purchase  their  stock  ?  Too  many 
there  are  who  buy  and  sell  drugs,  wholesale,  without  a  thought 
of  their  object  as  means  of  cure,  as  agents,  upon  the  quality  of 
which  the  lives  of  their  fellow  men  may  depend.  A  real  in- 
cident, which  occurred  to  a  friend  of  mine  in  New  York,  is  so 
much  to  the  point  in  illustration  of  this  fact,  that  it  may  be 
safely  adduced.  This  friend,  who  I  shall  call  Colton,  and  who 
at  that  time  was  an  eminent  pharmaceutist  on  Broadway,  having 
occasion  to  replenish  his  stock  of  cantharides,  or  blistering  flies, 
called  on  the  druggist,  with  whom  he  usually  dealt,  to  procure 
them ;  but  he  having  none,  application  was  made  to  another 
druggist,  who  shall  be  called  Haswell.  Entering  the  extensive 
establishment  of  the  latter,  the  following  dialogue  ensued : 
Colton. — "  I  am  informed  that  you  have  powdered  cantharides 
of  good  quality,  and  I  am  desirous  of  getting  some  that  is  re- 
liable." 
Haswell. — "  Oh  certainly!  you  will  find  none  better  ;  we  had 
the  powder  made  expressly  for  our  sales,  from  selected  flies." 
Colton.- — "  I  am  particular  in  providing  this  drug,  as  you 
know  how  much  depends  on  its  efficient  and  prompt  action." 
Haswell. — "  You  may  rely  upon  our  article  as  in  good  con- 
dition." 
Here  the  conversation  closed,  Colton  gave  his  order,  and  left 
the  store.  Some  weeks  after,  while  he  was  engaged  at  his 
counter,  Haswell  walked  in,  evidently  under  some  nervous  ex- 
citement, when  the  following  occurred : 
