Word: prescriptioneering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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But it was Britain's famed Lord Horder, consulting physician to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, who offered the most ambitious description of a doctor's mission. Medicine, said he, must write the prescription for a healthy state,* and "guide the politicians. ... It is the doctor's...
Forty years of soda business apparently have convinced the owners of Billings & Stover, oldest pharmacy in the Square, that these modern fads have no future. Destruction of the marble fountain in the Massachusetts Avenue drugstore has been completed this week to make way for an expanding prescription department.
Although admitting that "the soda business has never been better," Mahoney has been forced to take the fountain out in order to handle his greatly increased prescription trade. "We have had the confidence of our customers," said Mahoney, "and we must acknowledge it."
The prescription turnover, always the first concern of the store, has shown a fourfold increase in the last six years, seriously overtaxing the present facilities.
For payment of the bonus, Dewey had an equally Spartan prescription. He wanted it paid off in ten years by means of an additional 1? tax on cigarets, a 20% increase in present income taxes. Democrats, who wanted business to pay the tab, wailed that veterans would be paying for...