Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1854-07-25
MINNESOTA WEEKLY TIMES.
FRIDAY, JULY 81, Is 81.
ADULTERATED DRUGS,

We do not wish to brighten the community or
injure the business of our Druggists (Which by
the way, Just now is very brightly but we deem 1t
duty to call attention to the great amount OF
adulterated Drugs annually shipped off into the
Western market. 1t may all b. true that the
Druggists arc we'll qualified to judge of the arti-
Gle, and DO probably what they can to prevent the
importation of that which is bad, but nevertheless
that n great deal of that which is considered gem
uine, is spurious, there is but little doubt. The
merchant bays of the wholesale dealer, who can
net his pleasure in sending the genuine or the
adult rat I'd article he knows that it has got many
NJ les ia go and that probably it will never return.
and unless the purchaser inspects every article
previous to its shipment, it is very possible, quite
probable in fast certain, that half h. buys is of
an adultera;ei nature. Now the evil effects ari-
sing from this bad system of trade. are these:-
The physician, matter how skillfu, is very
often baffled in his treatment of diseases. He
knows that certain quantity of a certain article
will cure or rather mitigate the virulencc of
certain disease. II. calls at the Druggist, pro-
cures the article, gives the dose, but i not
operate. lie is at loss to know what next to do.
lie repeats the dose, and perhaps finally is obliged
20 rc-ort 10 other remedies. In the mean time
ihe sickness of the patient is protracted, addition
al expense is incurred, and perhaps death follows.
All this can be traced directly to adultcrated
drug. Bat SAYS one. this is all talk, Won can't
Prove it, Let capable inSp >ctor be appointed,
and we will hazard the assertion that the ajority
Of thu articles for medicinal purposes which is
shipped into the West will prove to be adulterated,
and if assertion is not true, we Will forfeit
500 for charitable purposes. Nearly every town
in the West is deluged with spurious drugs, and
it is time that Druggists should give this matter
their earliest. earnest attention. 1t is duty they
owe to themselves, to the physicians and to the
community. lie who deals only in the gcnu NJ
article. Will build up excellent trade, while he
who suffers himself TO be duped by designing
wholesale dealers, will soon find loss of trade
aud loss of character. Give us pure, unadll-
;cratcd drugs,
orr MLs.-Wc heartily endorse the ar
ticlc in the Democrat of Wednesday evening, on
our mails. The whole arrangement Except the
Office at st. Paul,) is Il disgrace to the Depart
ment. Hundreds and hundreds of persons are
continually suffering through the negligence or
laziness Of some Office holder, and though cry
out for redress. yet no re lrcss is had. If this
state of things continues, we must call meeting,
ard let the voice of the people be heard. Almost
'vcry day gentlemen inform US that if they could
only get their papers regularly, they would sub
scribe for the Times, and those who have sub
scribed, deprived the privilege of reading the
paper more than half the time. But editors are
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the community but is injured more or less by our
present bad mail arrangements. We do not en-
treat. W. insist that the Postmaster General
should attend to this matter. 1t is no more than
our rights and We should have them.