The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-10-25 00:00:00

BANKERS

UNION Berm OF LONDON, 4, Pall Mall East.
SOLICITOR.
E. Mcss, Esq., 23, Moorgate-street.

AUDITORS

GRIFFITH TAYLOR, Esq., Gravesend:
SAMUEL HARRIS, Esq., Mansell-street, Whitechapel

OFFICE, LABORATORIES, 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 science.
It was Incorporated in January last, under the provisions of the
Limited Liability Act.
Spacious Premises have been taken—Warehouses, Drug Mills,
Laboratories, and Machinery erected ; and the Company is now
prepared for business, wholesale and re all.
An 'nspection of the Estab ishment in Berners-street will abun-
dantly prove that this Company possesses power and facilities to
perform all that it promises, namely—to prepare and 'apply the
hfedical Profession and the P blic with Medicines of every kind,
cf 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 op-irations, such a Company cannot fail
to inspire confidence, and accomplisa far more than any corps of
Government Inspectors.

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Among its arrangements may be mentiined f-Ist. That no
foreign 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 and Chemical Laboratories are under the constant
superintendence of a resident emin-nt scientific Chemist, recom-
mended by Baron Liebis and Dr. Fresenius, 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 approbation of a very large number of Practioners
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 design ; and
a considerable stock, together with Building*, Plant. Machinery.
Utensils, and the Fittings of a spacious Shop for dispensing and
retail, with all preliminary expenses, and advertisements, have been
paid for, leaving a portion of the Capital in hand sufficient fur the
business on a certain scale.

It was always, however, contemplated by the Directors to,make
the premises in Berners•street the Manufacturing, and Ot ntral
Wholesale Depot ; and to open Branches to suit the convenience of
the pubic in various parts of the Metropolis, and in the principal
Provincial Cities and Towns of Great Britain, for the sale of their
drugs. and preparations, and f,,r 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 Establishments
at far less expense than individuals, since all preparations and com-
pounds will be prepared at the central laboratories, in Berners-
street.

The public Press has added another to the many important ser-
vices it has tendered to Society by exposing the evils arising from
the prevalence of adulteration of Drugs and Chemicals employed in
Medicine, and, demanding a remedy for this abuse, The Times, of
August 25, observes:—

"-It requires but a slight portionsof common sense to understand
bow 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 like a paralysed man, whose
limbs refuse to 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, aid con-
taintless of this virtue than it professes to do, and perhaps even
that injured by some foreign admixture, his whole estimate is
affe,ted, and the process becomes a piece of guesswork. As one
witoPss says 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 dose
in order to produce the desired effect. 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 Adul'eration that
the adulteration of drugs, though considerably reduced of late years,
sti I g,e< on to a tame 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

cues of di iease in which the correctness of the strength of an
opiate must make all the difference of life and death; }et we are
told that 19 out of every 24 samples of opium are adulterated."
The Directors of the GRNBRAL APOTHICCARIZe COMPANY
(limited) consider that the reme 'y for the evil thus exposed will be
found in their plan, and that public confidence must be obtained by
a large and respectable Company, able by its constitution and
arrangements, to meet the demand for pu.ity in medicines, and
staking Its existence upon maintaining good faith with the pro-
fusion and the publ c. . . .

Upon these considerations it was resolved, at a General Extra-
ordinary Meeting of the Sh rehalders, held at 49, Berners-street,
August 28, 856, that the Capital of the Con pany thould be at
once increased by the issue of further Shares, at the discretion of
the Directors, tor the pu pose of extending the business of the
C°,..m.Y2n9 ; such Shares to bt issued at par, namely, £lO each.
.ne Directors therefore announce, that they are prepared to
receive appl enticing for such Shares.
he Premises and Laboratories are open to the inspection of
Visitors,
on forwarding their cards to the Manager ; and persons
desirous of subscribing
Istablishment. for
_Shares are invited to Evisit the
September, 11156.

FORM OF APPLICA.TION FOR SHARES.
To the Directors of the Gin"
czimlt.wiLeoTriSCA.Rlits' COMP&NY.
49, Berners-street, O,OOA
-street, London.
Gentlemen,—Please to allot me
accept the same, or any
the above Company ; and I hereby 'west. accept or Jew each In
i provisions
required.
less number of Shares which may be Allotted
f
amount upon allotment; and I undertake to abidine4 the
eB4d to pay the
of the Deed of the said Company, and to sign the ....m
Date.. ...................... ....
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Name in full ....•••••••
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Profession or occupation

Referee ......
v • *Applications for Shares to 0000000000 ••••
* transmitted to the Manager. at
49,Berners-screet, 0:foy-street.
The Directors have said nothing in the foregoing Prospectus
respecting the expected profits of this undertaking; it is well known
that in a successful Drug Rosiness they are very large.
e Shareholders in this Company are entirely exempt from
Liability. by the Act of Parliament under which it is incorporated.
The Company are now making open a
arrangements to
Depot in Liverpool, of which the local Shareholders
will have the control, subject to the approval of the
Central Board.

TO HOUSEKEEPERS AND OTHERS.
OBSERVE !—The immediate and permanent
EXTINCTION of all kinds of Noxious INSECTS
and VERMIN faithfully guaranteed, upon Purely scientific and
rational principles, not requiring the aid of poison, on application to
Mr. IROfiERT GREER, lola-Vermin Odic* 411, Brownlow-hill,
Liverpool.