THE CHEMIST'S BILL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10686, 13 July 1912, Page 4

THE CHEMIST'S BILL.

•The, absence? of any evidence at the \Cost of LiviMig iComanission. as to the increase or otherwise l of tlr& chemist's 'bill led a repnbs'enat've of the New Zealand, Herald to make' feome onquir--105 tan this account. His investigations dad ; rbot throw much light on tlto question whether there has been any

rise in th'q prime tof physic, but he picked up some- imtewiting mfbrmiatiioii. Chve ohemua.t, for instance, told him that a siH-piising numbtir of people- doctor (themselves nowadays. "They know wMit things cost, and they know pretty well what thoy'xe for. We' clften' hav© ipreccriptioir* brought in, wrifcte'a by the customer, who saves a doctor's ifce. By-and-by the- /man gees further, .and buys his ['(materials by .weight!, ittee-penn'oi'th. . lit a time, and docs hVs town d:spens>- ! fag. And, of course, we ca'ir't iblUme him." Weill, hai-dly, {'specially fas Kvhat till?- chemist described as >ihe "increase *f nSrdioal knowledge" is- good •for the. chcmV.it'is trade, because' it •means an iturea-sed txurnevor. C'ne gathers (that the mhn. who isaves. in doctor's (fees' fpeuc's mtor.cj with the chemist, wJiich is what might ,bt' expected. And ;a.s in- tho end he pro!>)alb>l!y has f to go .to tire doctor, the latter dtic® not lose much. Indeed, kmiat.qur doctors are Jik'e amateur (lawyers—thty both help to keep the ptt'ofess'ictfals busy.