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farmer  will  be  naught  but  a  hewer  of  wood,  a  drawer  of  water 
and  a  digger  of  ditches,  goes  without  saying.  But  if  a  pharmacist 
has  the  vision,  not  necessarily  of  "The  Gleam"  that  Tennyson  writes 
about,  but  a  view  of  the  broad  expanses  of  opportunity  before  him, 
that  man  will  not  only  be  an  exponent  of  real  pharmacy,  but  will 
also  be  a  successful  pharmacist. 
Let  me  give  a  few  illustrations  of  what  I  mean.  Here  is  one 
pharmacist  I  know  who  is  famed  in  the  city  where  he  lives  as  hav- 
ing the  one  apothecary  shop  where  all  sorts  of  finely  garbled  herbs 
are  available ;  not  the  compressed  packaged  herbs  that  are  seen  in 
most  stores,  but  carefully  dried  herbs  almost  as  handsome  as  herba- 
rium specimens. 
Here  is  another  retail  pharmacist,  a  Bell  scholar,  by  the  way, 
who  is  gaining  reputation  throughout  the  United  States  for  the  digi- 
talis preparations  standardized  by  the  Hatcher  method. 
Here  is  a  Southern  druggist  who,  having  a  bent  toward  chemis- 
try, specialized  in  making  unlisted  chemicals  for  those  physicians  de- 
siring them,  thereby  adding  to  his  daily  receipts  and  to  his  reputa- 
tion among  the  medical  fraternity. 
Here  is  a  New  York  pharmacist  who  dared  to  specialize  as  a 
prescriptionist,  who  prepared  himself  to  dispense  sterile  medica- 
ments in  ampule  form,  and  who  now  has  people  coming  to  his 
store  from  all  over  the  big  city,  asking  for  special  prescription 
work  of  highly  technical  character;  ready  to  pay  the  adequately 
high  price  that  such  service  means. 
Here  is  an  apothecary  in  a  city  on  the  Great  Lakes,  who, 
despite  the  enormous  number  of  thyroid  preparations  on  the  market, 
has  built  up  quite  a  business  in  dispensing,  in  capsules,  dessicated 
thyroids  sent  to  him  in  fresh  condition  from  the  slaughter  house. 
It  is  needless  to  say  that  this  man  has  the  finest  prescription  busi- 
ness in  his  city. 
Here  is  the  pharmacist  (now  numbered  by  scores)  who, 
starting  in  by  performing  in  a  satisfactory  manner  urinary  work 
for  the  medical  profession,  has  developed  that  side-line  into  a  busy 
laboratory  where  the  chemical  and  bacteriological  side  of  clinical 
diagnosis  is  performed  at  fees  commensurate  with  the  service. 
And  lastly,  let  me  cite  by  name  one  pharmacist,  who  showed 
us  of  the  United  States,  the  possibilties  of  professional  pharmacy, 
that  great  pharmacist,  Henry  P.  Hynson,  of  Baltimore,  whose  de- 
