Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-04-20

b6WE copy the annexed article from
the New York Druggists Price Current, as it
gives information which is not only of in port
ance to the medical profession, but to the
pubSc generally:
Pure Medicinal Preparations.
| The history of improvements made within
few years past, in the preparation of d aedi-
cinal 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 entertaining aud profitable reading for the
public geterally.
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 difficulty
encountered by the pioneers In new methods
of preparation or the administration OF med
| icinal 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 crucble OF professional scrutiny,
/ anu thoroughly tested by practical application
on a scale sufficient 10 afford unquestionable
results, and this is the only way we have ever
arrived at a proper estimate Of the real and
permanent value of improvements.
II 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 alb
sOlutey necessary for our success hence 1t II
/ that from the earliest times, the Medical Pro-
I fau ciO aHo oil kx-f HIGHEST order
of intellectual endownents nd scholarly at
| tainments, exhibiting an amount OF skill and
wisdom hardly aggregated in al " other of the
learned professions.
We did not intend to saw so much in gener-
al terms. as our object was to give our readers
some idea of an establishment which more
than any other in this country oT perhaps in
the world has contributed to the wants of the
Medical Profession ana Druggists generally
we refer to Messrs. IIIDES q Co., of New
Lebanon, and in this city-and, if space would
allow, we are sure the majority OF our readers
would like more detlils than wo can give at
/ this time.
II is now nearly twenty years since the
Messrs. TILDES 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. Pharmsco-
poia, Concentrations. and manv of the most
valuable Pharmaceutical Preparations.
From the beginning GU a small scale with
the vacuum apparatus, which was then
scarcely known, they have studied, assiduous-
ly. to apply every Improvements 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 woras 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 adj)ining fire-prcof
building.
Anything like a 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 capsc-
I 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 IL adopted, besides
the various devices for saving labor and waste
of material which are the result of long and
practical experience IN the manipulation of the
more delicate combinations of potent drugs,
and the necessity of accurate aud strictly COR
rect exhibition of quantities required IN the
minutest attenuatlOns.
The advantages enjoyed by the Messrs. Til
den. of a local character. are worthy of men,
a reputation for the efficiency and medical val
ne of their preparations.
All the herbs, barks and roots Of Indigenous
growth are gathered by those who have expert
ence, and each and every article is brought
into the Laboratory at the season when il con-
tains mo It of medicinal value. A large amount
of these materials are gathered by the farmers
and others over large section of country
around the Laboratory. and. iu addition to
such supplies the Messrs. Tilder have under
cultivation some forty acres near their prem
ises.
These advantages acquired by long expe-
rience and patient as well as persistent labor,
afford the facilities which are of greatest i'm
por;ance in this business. and cannot be en-
joyed except by those similarly situated, and
giving attention. more or less, to the cultiva-
ton of Indigenous medicinal products and
70 as to get all the benefits of improved cul-
ture.
In this connection, it il only doing justice
to speak of MT H. A. Tilden's various and i'm
portant contributions to medical science--we
refer more especially to his elaborate report to
the Pharmaceutical Society, upon the cultiva-
ton of narcotic plants. in which he carefully
illustrates how fully the active properties can
be developed, at will. by scientific culture.
The profession hardly aware of the la
Dor required TO reach the deyelopements and
improvements which have heen made in the
long experience Of this establishment. Be-
sides the general business they issue valu-
able Journal Of Materia Medica from their ex-
tensiye printing department. and have recently
issued their Supplement to Materia Medica.
which IL valuable addition to the library of
every physician. and useful as reference book
for druggists generally.