Ten pharmacists, two generations

Drug Topics' intermittent series "Pathways through Pharmacy" gave rise fairly quickly to an unusual offshoot — accounts of whole clans populated primarily by pharmacists. Readers whose families carry the pharmacy gene are still writing in. Here’s the story of another such family group.


	"During the Depression, Dad was a delivery boy for the local pharmacy. The ladies of the night at the town brothel were so glad to receive their medications that they tipped him, sometimes as much as a dime."

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