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     HERE’S THE BEHIND- TEE-PRICES smnv" 
     
    
   
   
    
     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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     they 
     
    
   
   
    
     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. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     ’roo 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     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.  
     
    
   
   
    
     elude us long." 
     
    
   
   
    
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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  
     
    
   
   
    
     our time. cancer and heart dis- V 
     
    
   
   
    
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     Too many people. too muck l 
     
     time. too much money are be-, :- 
     
    
   
   
    
     lng expended for a cure to  
     
    
   
   
    
     d 
     
    
   
   
    
     When that day arrives. wil I 
     
    
   
   
    
     I we still haggle over the pricei ‘  
     
    
   
   
    
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     (Reprinted from m Mar Weekly)  
     
    
   
   
    
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