i'm giving this one over to a good friend of mine who is a pharmacist- so hear
goes:
Hi-I am an older pharmacist(grown children). The term druggist was used because years before I went to pharmacy school, you could become a "Licensed Practical Druggist" by working in a pharmacy-like an internship-but
without going to pharmacy school. They could do anything a pharmacist could do including shifts without a pharmacist there. But you did have to have one pharmacist on the staff. This was all before the advent of pharmacy techs.We did everything ourselves-and you might find it a little scary that when I first got out of school, we were not allowed to put the drugs name on the bottle and there was no such thing as a computerized pharmacy. There was also not a chain store on every corner that was open
every fricken hour of every single day. We put our phone numbers on the door of the pharmacy and the doctors called us and we went down to the store after hours for emergencies. I have worked retail and institutional pharmacy and still think it is a great career. Only 10% of my class were women and I was the first woman pharmacist in the city in which I live-LOL
I just posted a link in the pre-pharmacy forum to the story. 
