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1869 August 12 Letter to B. C. Snedaker

Title

1869 August 12 Letter to B. C. Snedaker

Description

Snedaker is welcome to open a medical store; perhaps it will break up the current monopoly.

Type

Correspondence

Sender

B. C. Snedaker

Recipient

B. C. Snedaker

Date

1869 August 12

Location

Salt Lake City

Number of Pages

2

Subject

Business Matters

 

Salt Lake City
Augt. 12. 1869.

Mr. B. C. Snedaker
S. L. City.

Dear Sir:-

Yours of the 9th. has been received, wherein you propose to open a "City Prescription Store" for the relief of accidental injuries -- where sufferers can get wounds dressed -- or bones set -- or in cases of sickness receive counsel & if needs be medicine, with a view, you say, "of arresting the growing tendency to employ doctors & their mischievous drugs."

If opening another Medical Store will do this, I say success to the enterprise.

You are perfectly free to try it. This is a matter with which I have no wish to interfere. It is a free country & you have a perfect right to all its liberties, and if you only succeed in smashing up <the doctors &> the drug business you will deserve the thanks of a grateful community.

Yours with respect

Brigham Young