Large Fees and How to Get Them: A book for the private use of physicians
CHAPTER XIII.
PRESCRIBING OF REMEDIES. Why Physicians 179 Should Dispense Their Own Prescriptions—Trouble With Present System of Drug-store Dispensing—Number of Drugs Actually Required in Practice Limited—Duplication of Prescriptions by Pharmacists an Injustice to Doctors—Proprietary Medicine Fakirs—Prescribing Secret Formula Preparations—How Many Practitioners Are Hoodwinked—Positive Injury in Prescribing Remedies by Trade Names—Violation of Code in Using Preparations With Unknown Ingredients—Value of Mystery in the Administration of Drugs—Unwise to Let Patients Know Too Much About Their Prescriptions—Why All Remedies Should Be Designated in Latin—Views of Dr. Osler on Drug Prescribing