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TJIE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN. TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 4, 1919 la, v a mrs broad, oars strong The Largest Drug House in the World ( f$if b t Hi M it. -mm - ,r j I'M ' rn The same 67 years of science that have expanded the black smith's forge into a steel industry have likewise expanded the apoth ecary's mortar into a massive service bottomed on the broad base of human needs. . This cycle of magic measured by 67 years has girded Earth with rails, spanned continents "with cables, conquered space with sound, and air .with wing3, and darkness with light that pierces solids. Marvels beyond these it has soothed mortal suffering with anaesthesia, opened the new domains of surgery, and blessed the world with the heaven-sent genius and patient labors of Pasteur. Into this era of marvels was born the brand-new science of bacteriology; it found laws of disease and founded preventive medicine; it produced antiseptics, reduced hygiene to known principles, revolutionized materia medica, and evolved the greatest chemical movement of all times. r 67 years of patient experiment with the test tube have made the chemist and the pharmacist co-workers in the truest sense with the physician and surgeon servants of one cause. The same light of science ennobles the work of your intelli gent druggist that sheds its rays upon the man of research or the doctor by your bedside. The druggist bent under, the same study-lamp to inter pret the physician's knowledge. The laborer is worthy of his hire, but the skilled apothecary is often denied even the poor rewards of commerce, much less the professional recognition he deserves. Manufacturing chemists, Importers and job bers for the 67 years that span the new life of drugs, the Meyer Brothers Drug Company has been the fruition of the laboratory the laborious upbuilding of quality and the gradual broadening of service that embody the entire evolution of chemical science, out of whose test-tube have come those age-wonders which surpass the fabled bottle of the genie. Its own laboratories dedicated to science, the home of new discoveries and bene factions, its ideal has been the perfection of purity drug-quality. ft HE world may exist or it may get sick on second-class food, but it cannot get well on second class drugs. The Meyer Brothers Drug Company, universal in its buying selective in a world sense perfect in EYER vs ST-L0U 1 ST equipment scrupulously exact in the entire proc essing, preparation, packing, handling, storing and even shipping methods that it employs, it ex presses in its entire function the nicety of perfec tion typified by the apothecary's scales the purity of the crucible, the particularity of the microscope, the findings of the test-tube. Meyer Brothers Drug Company's certified products and the "drug quality" that its label attests have behind them the proved integrity of 67 years service. UST as it embodies the entire progress in the chemical world in its supplies, the Meyer Brothers Drug Company embraces in manufacture and dis tribution the whole development of the modern drugstore in sundries of first quality of every conceivable character. To an order: "Ship me a drugstore" the Meyer Brothers Drug Company could supply the complete answer on the same day the order was received. The Meyer Brothers Drug Company every day does ship scores of "drugstores" in the aggregate. '& QUALITY CERTIFIED BY TEST VERYWHERE" measures the scope or breadth of its service. Over the counters of more than 15,000 drugstores the service of the Meyer Brothers Drug Company extends in the hand of the drug clerk that passes its certified products to the public. Meyer Brothers Drug Company Saint Louis