We'll also see an end to the selling of "stock" trusses by general Mail-Order houses where an order for a truss is handled in exactly the same way—and often by the same man—as an order for groceries or hardware.
And, when that time comes, mighty few drug-stores will be able to sell trusses.
Let us show why.
Take the following as an example:
A man might think he had only a bad cold.
And might go to a drug-store.
Now, a druggist doesn't pretend to know disease—he simply knows drugs.
So about all the druggist could do would be to hand out some patent medicine—some cure-all.
But if the man went out to a good physician—
The physician might find, after asking a few questions and thus making a diagnosis, that the patient had La Grippe, or Pneumonia, or Pleurisy (instead of merely a cold, as the patient thought).