The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-04-29

bSS WE copy the annexed article from
the New York Druggists Price Current, as if
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 a
few years past, in the preparation of medicinal
agents, Is scarcely known except bv the more
intelligent class of druggists and the medical
profession, and statement embracing all the
really valuable add tons 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 70 time some facts respecting the more
important advances in this direction, and espe-
clally 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
| a new theory at once subjects himself to the
! severest criticisms, and success can only be
realized, when the improvement offered has
I been put through the crucible of professional
scrutiny, and thoroughly tested by practical
! application on a 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.
1t 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 endowment of
4 health and protection against disease are abso-
/ lutelv necessary for our success hence it is
! that from the earliest times. the Medical Pro-
! fession has been adorned by the highest order
Of all
/ taipmenss, exhibiting an amount of skill and
wisdom hardly aggregated in any other of the
I learned professions.
| We did not intend to say so much in general
terms, as our object was to give 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 TLDEN & Co., of New
! Lebanon, and in this city-and, if space would
allow. we are sure the majority of our readers
would Ike more details than we can give at
this 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-
p@ia, Concentrations, and many of the most
valuable Pharmaceutical Preparations.
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 es-
adjustment NAV 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, I'M
til the premises now occupy about half an
acre of ground, and the vast amount of ma
chlnery Is driven by powerful steam-engins
located in an adj dining 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 Granues
every recent improvement Is 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 and strictly cor
rect exhibition of quantities required in the
mlnutest attenuatlOns.
The advantages enjoyed by the Messrs Til
den, of a local character, are worthy of men
ton, and explain how they have attained such
a 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-
rience. 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 nave un-
der cultivation forty acres near their
premises
The advantages, acquired bya long expert
ence and patient as well 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.. II. 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
I culture.
The profession arc 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 a valua-
BILE Journal of Materia Medica from their ex-
J tensiye printing department, and have recent
/ ly issued their Supplement to Matena Medica,
which is a valuable addition to the library of
1 every physician, and useful as reference book
/ for druggists generally