I'm what you call a professional drug dealer. I work at a pharmacy. We have a special room where we keep all the narcotics. A few days ago I came across a shelf I hadn't noticed before. Something that I didn't know was a legal drug to dispense. Cocaine. That's right we have cocaine. In powdered and liquid form. Just the other day I had to dispense some cocaine to someone in the ER. Apparently it's used to stop bleeding and reduce pain in your nose. Apparently it's been around for a long time. Take a look at this old advertisement I found. It's hard to believe that they use to give this stuff to kids for a toothache. My how things have changed.
Another weird thing that I despensed was leeches. That's right live leeches. They are used to help circulate blood in a digit that has been severed and help drain clotted blood vessles. Doctors have been using leeches for a long time. They use to keep them in leech jars like the one in the picture. They would also be used at barbershops to clean the blood of their patrons while they got a haircut. That's why the barber shop signs use to have the red and white candy cane thing outside. The weird thing about leeches is that the doctor doesn't know how many he will need. So we buy a leech motel and have about thirty on hand in the refrigerator. When I dispense a leech I have to go over to the leech bucket and scoop up three or four leeches and put them in a smaller container. The pharmacists joked with me and said that I had to feed them by cutting my finger and puting a few drops of blood in the bucket everyday.
0 comments:
Post a Comment