Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-04-20

than any other in this country or perhaps In
the world has contributed to the wants OF the
medical profession and druggists generally
we refer to Messrs. TILDEN & Co., OF New
Lebanon, and in this city-and, If space would
allow, we are sure the majority of our read
ers would like more details than we can give
at this time.
It is now nearly twenty years since the
Messrs TILDEN commenced the manufacture
of their " fluid and solid extracts" in vacuo,
to which they have since added sugar
coated pills and granues," Of the v. B.
Pharmacop9ia, concentrations, and many OF
the most valuable pharmaceutical prepare
tions.
From the beginning on small scale with
the vacuum apparatus, which was tnen
scarcely known, they have studied, assiduous-
ly, to apply every improvement as fast as ex-
perience has demonstrated its value, and now
their establishment may be said to embrace
all the appliances of modern invention re-
quired for the best possible manipulation OF
medicinal agents, and their works have been
remodeled and received additions from time
to time until the premises now occupy about
half an acre of ground, and the vast amount
of machinery Is driven by powerful steam
engine located in an adjoining fire-proof
building.
ANYTHING like description of the numer-
Gus appliances in the different departments OF
| their extensive laboratory, would require more
! than the columns Of our paper !; but we can
| give some idea when we state that the capac-
| ity of the entire number Of vacuum pans EN-
ployed exceeds six thousand gallons, and
| these are used in the manufacture OF solid and
| fluid extracts.
In the department for pills and granules
every recent Improvement is adopted, beside
| the various devices for saving labor and waste
| of material, which are the result of a long and
practical experience in the manipulation OF
| the more delicate combinations OF potent
Nf to and
| strictly correct exhibition of quantities re-
| quired in the minutest attenuations.
The advantages enjoyed by the Messrs
! Tilden of local character, are worthy of
mention, and explain how they have attained
such a reputation for the efficiency and
medicinal value of their preparations,
| All the herbs, banks and roots OF indigenous
| growth are gathered by those who have ex-
! perience, and each and every articles is
| brought into the laboratory at the season
| when it contains most Of medicinal value. A
| large amount of these materials are gathered
| by the farmers and Others over a large section
| OF country around the laboratory, and, in adj
| dition to such supplies the Messrs. Tilden
| have under cultivation forty acres near their
| premises.
These advantages, acquired by long ex-
! perience and patient as well as persistent la
Dor, afford the facilities which are Of greatest
| importance in this business, and cannot be
enjoyed except by those similarly situated,
and giving attention, more or less to the cul-
tivation of indigenous medicinal products,
and so as to get all the benefits OF improved
culture.
In this connection, it is only doing justice
to speak of Mr.. III. A. Tilden's various and
important contributions to medical science
we refer more especially to his elaborate re-.
port to the Pharmaceutical Society upon the
| cultivation of narcotic plants, in which he
carefully illustrates how fully the active prop
critics can be developed, at will, by scientific
culture.
The profession are hardly aware of the la
| Dor required to reach the developments and
| improvements which have been made in the
| long experience of this establishment. Be
| sides the general business, they issue valu-
! able Journal of Materia Medca from their
| extensive printing department, and have re-
Gently issued their Supplement TO Materia
| Medica which is valuable addition TO the
library of every physician, and useful as q ref
erence book for druggists generally.