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Why shoulda tiny tube of ointment cost $4.50. a dozen capsules $16. a few tablets $127 is your druggist a pill prof- lteer? Or is he a modern medi- cine-man dispensing bargain

. miracles?

First. let's consider the phen- omonal‘ advances in medicine over the past 20 years. Teams of dedicated scientists in a tire- less guest for new weapons against mankind'swarst scourges have given the world the

tisone. isoniazid and steroid

penicillin. "sulfas." cor-

hormones. They have accomp- iished more in two decades than in the past 20 centuries.

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are coslly?

Of al the profit-making or- ganizations in today's economy the pharmaceutical industry is the only one which labors in- cessantly to destroy itself.

These men-with-a-mission spend

over $100,000.000 annually in’

research alone. plowing back eight to 10 per cent of their gross incomes into compounds which will make today's wonder

drugs tomorrow's has-beens.

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Originally it cost $20,000.- 000 totfind ways of producing pencilin in quantity. Dr. Alex- ander Fleming's famous mould first cost the consumer $20 per 100.000 units. but now th e same dosage in tablet form costs 15 cents. cortisone. re- cently $200 a gram. is down to about $10. Yet the public. un- mindful of the old adage that good things come in small pack-

ages. still believes it is being

exploited.

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The man in the white coat down at the corner drug store is the only person in the entire medical team to whom no mis- takes are granted. One faulty prescription reading. one fail- ure to check back with a docf tor. and your life may be forh feit. For this skill he is paid about 50 cents in dispensing

fees above the cost of the drug.

ease. will soon be vanquished.

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Cyril Wilkins. managing ector of British drug houses in Canada and a past president of the Association for the Ad- vancement of Pharmacy. awarded him a special citation“ for his contributions in this field. has this say: "I am con-i; fldent the two worst killers of

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These Prince Edward Island Drug .Stores Are Highly Qualified to Fill Your Doctor's Prescription Efficiently, Economically

REDDIN

BROS. CO., LTD.

HUGHES DRUG

ENMAN DRUG

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JAMIESON’S DRUG STORE

JENKINS PHARMACY-

CANTWELL’S

PH ARMACY

FOLEY'S

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