The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-04-14


DTWE copy the annexed article from
the New York Druggists Price Current, as 1t
gives information which is not only of import
ance to the medical profession, but to the
public generally:
Pure Medicinal Preparations.
The history of improvements made within
few years past, in the preparation of medicinal
agents, is scarcely known except by the more
intelligent class Of druggists and the medical
profession, and statement embracing all the
really valuable additions to pharmacy and the
convenience of the physician, would be enter
tanning and profitable reading for the public
generally.
In the absence of such details in form for
reference, we propose to give our readers from
time to time some facts respecting the more
important advances in this direction, and espe-
cially the improvements, which experience has
amply demonstrated to be Of value to the
world at large. Every careful reader of the
leading medical journals published at home
and abroad must be aware of the great diff
Guilty encountered by the pioneers in new
methods of preparation or the administration
Of medicinal agents. and whoever promulgates
new theory at once subjects himself to the
severest criticisms, and success can only be
realized, when the Improvement offered has
been put through the crucibe of professional
scrutiny, and thoroughly tested by practical
application on scale sufficient to afford I'M
questionable results and this is the only way
we have ever arrived at proper estimate of
the real and permanent value of improve
ments.
It must be considered that in all the range
of scientific development there is no depart
ment which so directly involves the welfare Of
mankind, because after all, the enjoyment of
health and protection against disease are abso-
lutely necessary for our success hence it is
that from the earliest times, the Medical Pro-
fession has been adorned by the highest order
OF intellectual endowments and scholarly at
talnmenss, exhibiting an amount Of skill and
wisdom hardly aggregated in any other of the
learned professions.
We did not intend to say so much in general
terms, az orr object was to give our readers
some idea of an establishment which more
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 readers
would like more details than we can give at
thus time.
1t 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 Granules," Of the U. S. Pharmaco-
poeia, Concentrations, and many of the most
From the beginning on a small scale with
the vacuum apparatus which was then scarce
" known they have studied, assiduously, to
apply every improvement as fast as experience
has demonstrated its value, and now their
tAblis hment may be said to embrace all the
appliances OF modern invention required for
the best possible manipulation of medicinal
agents and their works have been remodeled
and received additions from time to time, un-
tl the premises now occupy about half an
acre Of ground, and the vast amount of ma
chinery is driven by powerful steam-engine
located in an adjoining fire-proof building.
Anything like description of the numerous
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 capacity
of the entire number Of vacuum pans employ
ed 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, besides
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 drugs,
and the necessity Of accurate and strictly cor
rect exhibition of quantities required in the
minutest attenuations.
The advantages enjoyed by the Messrs. Til
den, of q local character, are worthy of men
q reputation for the efficiency and medicinal
value of their preparations.
All the herbs, barks and roots of indigenous
growth are gathered by those who have expe-
Renee, and each and every article is brought
into the Laboratory at the season when it con-
tains 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 addition to
such supplies the Messrs. Tilden have I'M
der cultivation some forty acres near their
premises
The advantages acquired by a long expert
ence and patient as we'll as persistent labor,
afford the facilities which are Of greatest i'm
portance in this business, and cannot be enjoy
ed except by those similarly situated, and Civ
ing attention, more or less, to the cultivation
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. Tildens 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.
61O6S tDe ReneTdi DuslueSS, UneV ISSUE a Valua
BILE Journal of Materia Medica from their ex
tensive printing department, and have recent
~ issued their Supplement to Materia Medica
which is a valuable addition to the library oil
every physician, and useful as reference bool
for druggists generally.
PRoF. HTLGARD, State Geologist o.
Louisiana, explains the origin of the
mud islands found in the upper delta
of the Mississippi, as miniature volca.
noes, upheavals from the river bottom
with central crater II is predicted
that this phenomenon, which is pecu
liar to this river, will cease as soon a,
the bar advances past the "blue clay
shelf into the deep water of the Gulf
now nine miles out. For, be it remem
bered, neither the Mississippi rive
nor the state of Louisiana are yet Fl n
ished.
A CALrFoRNIAN's idea of consolation
is shown by the story of the fate of tn
son of missionary to the Tong
Islands, who, naturally DESTROYS of see
ing civilized country, obtained per
mission Of his parents to visit TN
United States, but was killed by tn
Arizona Apaches But he found