The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-10-10 00:00:00

(With power to add to their number.)

BANKERS.
UNION BANK OP LONDON, 4, Pall Mall East.
SOLICITOR.
E. Mc.ss, Esq., 23, Moorgate-street.
AUDITORS.
GRIFFITH TAYLOR, Esq., Gravesend.
SAMUEL. HARRIS, Esq., Mansell-street, Wnitechapel.

OFFICE, LANORATORIFS, AND CENTRAL WHOLESALE AND
RETAIL. DEPOT, 49, Berners-street, Oxford-street, London.

September, 1856.
This Company has been established to meet the urgent public
demand for pure Drugs and Chemicals, and for Medicines prepared
by the aid of the present advanced state of scienc'3.
It was Incorporated in January last, under the provisions of the
Limited Liability Act.

Spacious Premises have been taken—Warehouses, Drug Mills,
Laboratories, and ➢lachinery erected ; and the Company is now
prepared for business, wholesale and re:all.
An inspect on of the Establshment in Berners-street will abun-
dant), prove that this Company possesses power and facilities to
perform all that it promises, namely—to prepare and simply the
Medical Profession and the P blic with Medicines of every kind,
of known strength, and perfect purity. Invalids' Foods, and Domes.
tic Chemicals. It is confident y believed that, by observing good
faith with the public in its operations. such a Company cannot fait
to inspire confidence, and accompisa far more than any corps of
G3vernment Inspectors.

Among its arrangements may be mentioned :-Ist. That no
fore:gn or indigenous Drugs are purchased except such as are
sound and genuine. 2nd. That they are crushed or ground upon

the premises. 3rd. That all commercial Chemicals are te•ted or
analyzed before they are sold for medicinal purposes. 4th. That the
Pharmaceutical arid Chemical Laboratories are under the constant
superintendence of a resident eniin-nt scientific Chemist, recom-
mended by Baron Liehiz and Dr. Frssenius, as eminently qualified
for those duties. sth. That the preparations ordered by the Colleges
in their Pharmacopoeias, are made strictly in accordance with their
directions.

The Directors have taken measures to ascertain the views of the
Profession ; and they are gratified to find that this enterprise has

elicited the cordial ap proba.tion of a very large number of Prictioners

of Great Britain; they receive daily assurances of support. and the
Company is already doing a very satisfactory amount of business.
The first issue of the Capital of the Company was readily sub-
scr bed, although very little publicity was given to the deign ; and
a considerable stock, together with Buildings, Plant. Machinery.
Utensils, and the Fittings of a spacious Shop for dispensing and
retail, with all preliminary expenses, and advertisements, have bee❑
paid for, leaving a portion of-the Capital in hand sufficient for the
business on a certain scale.

L was always, however, contemplated by the Directors to make
the premises in Berners.street the Manufacturing, and Central
Wholesale DPprtt ; and to open Branches to suit the convenience of
the public in various parts of the Metropolis, and In the principal
Provincial Cities and Toms of Great Britain, for the sale of their
drugs, and prepsr,,tionl, and for dispensing prescriptions. This
intention is strengthened, since many profitable businesses, already
established, have been offered to the Company, under the impres-
sion that it must command a very large trade founded on public
confidence.

By the establishment of such branches, the company will not
only secure the profits of a wholesale and manufacturing business.
but will add thereto the larger proportionate profits of the retail—
and, moreover, it will be able to conduct its branch E.tabliihments
at far less expense than individuals, since all preparivions and com-
pounds Mil be prepared at the central laboratories, in Bernms-
street.

The public Press' has added another to the many important ser-
rices it has rendered to Society by exposing the evils arising from
the prevalencf of adulteration of Drugs and Chemicals emp!o3ed in
Medicine, and, demanding a remedy for this abuse, The Times, of
August 25, observes:—

" It requires but a slight portion'of common sense to under tend
how important an ingredient of medical success the purity of drugs
must be. Drugs are the executive of the medical man, and, therefore.
with bad or inefficient drugs he acts ►ike a paralysed man, enose
limbs refuse • o obey him. The physician may have the most exact
idea in his bead of the amount of drug power which' he wants to
apply to the patient's disease; but if his drug deceives him, and con-
tains less of this virtue than it professes to do, and perhaps even
that injured by some foreign admixture, his whole estimate is
affected, and the process becomes a piece of guesswork. As on,
witness ttays before the Committee on Adulteration, The mischief
of defective medicines is not always immediate. It frequently hap-
pens that a person, from taking a defective drug, increases the dos:'
in order to produce the desired effe.:t. Then, upon taking the same
prescription to be made up, when the genuine drug is used the per.
son is almost poisoned.' It is therefore with much concern we learn
from the evidence given before the Committee on Adulteration that
the adulteration of drugs, though considerably reduced of late years,
goet on to a large amount. . Nor is this concern lessened when
we hear that the commonest and the most powerful drugs are both
subject to this adulteration. There must be numberless critical
cases of di 'ease in which the correctness of the strength of an
opiate must make all the difference of life and death; }et we ate
told that 19 out of every 24 samples of opium are adulterated."
The Directors of the GENERAL APOTHECARIES' COMPANY
;limited) consider that the remedy for the evil thus exposed will bc
found in their plan, and that public confidence must be obtained by
a large and respectable Company. able by its constitution anti
arrangements, to meet the demand for purity in medicines, and
staking Its existence upon maintaining good faith with the pro-
fession and the public.
Upon these considerations it was resolved, at a General Extra-
ordinary Meeting of the Sh +reholders, held at 49, Bernere-street,
August 28, 1856, that the Capital of the Company should be at
once increased by the issue of further Shares, at the discretion of
the Directors, for the pu•psse of extending the business cf the
Company ; such Shares to b, issued at par, namely, £lO each.
The Directors therefore announce, that they are prepared
receive appl'eations for such Shares.
•,t+ The Premises and Laboratories are open to the inspection of
Visitors, on forwarding their cards to the Manager ; and persons
desirous of subscribing for shares are invited to tnsit the
Establishment.
September, 1856.

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Shares of 'll3 each in
the above Company ; and I hereby agree to
accept the same, or any
49, Berners.street, Oxtord-street, London.
Gentlemen,—Please to allot me
take to abide by the provisions
less number of Shares which may be ;glutted to me, and to pay the
amount upon allotment ; and I under
Namelt Date.ei
d
of the Deed of the said Company, and to sign the same if required.
Profession or occupation
Referee . .
4,,,* Applications for Shares.tobe. transmitted to the Manager, at
49, liernerk -street, Oxfor. -street.
The Directors have • said nothing in the foregoing Prospectus
respecting the expected profi..B of this undertakin • it is well knowa
V at in a successful Dru 4 Business they areundertaking;
'
n= Shareholders in this Company are veryentirely large.
exempt from
Liability, by the Art of Parliament under whic ''
it is incorporated.
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The Company are now making arrangements to open a
Depot in Liverpool, of which the local Shareholders
will have the control,
__subject to the approval of the
Central Board.