Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-04-20

the New York Druggists I'rice Current, az Y
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 medi-
cina 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 and 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 i'll 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
icnal 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 crucbe of professional scrutiny
and thoroughly tested by practical application
on a scale sufficient to afford unquestiorable
arrived at proper estimate of the real and
permanent value Of Improvements.
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 enjoyment of
health and protection against disease are abb
soutely 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
| tainments, 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 gener-
al terms, as our 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. InDEN & Co., of New
! Lebanon, and in this cty--and, If space would
! allow, we are sure the majority of our readers
would like more details than we can give at
! this time.
| 1t is now nearly twenty years since the
! Messrs. IILDEN commenced the manufacture
| of their Fluid aud Solid Extracts" in vacuo,
to which they have since added "Sugar-oeated
/ Pills and Granules," of the U. s. Pharmaco-
! pnia, Concentrations, and many of the most
valuable Pharmaceutical Preparations.
! From the beginning on a small scale with
| the vacuum apparatus which was then
| scarcely known, they have studied, assiduous-
! ", 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 man. pulation 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 10 Nv arg Il ata
engine located in an adjoining hre-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 capac-
lty 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
moro delicate combinations of potent drugs,
and rhe necessity of accurate and strictly cor
rect exhibition of quantities required in the
mlnutest attenuatiOns.
The advantages enjoyed by the Mes5rs. Til
den, of n local character, are worthy OF men
ton and explain how they have attained such
a reputation for the efficiency and medical val
nc 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 st 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, III addition to
such supplies the MessTs, Iiden have under
cultivation some forty acres near their prem
ises.
These advantages, acquired by a long expe-
rieuce and patient as well as persistent labor,
afford the facilities which are of greatest im-
portance IN this business, and cannot be en-
joyed except by those similarly situated and
giving attention, more or less, to tho oultiva-
ton of Indigenous medicinal products and
so as to get all the benefits of improved cul-
ture.
In this connection, it is only doing justice
to speak of Mr. II, A. Tildens various and i'm
portaIt contributions to medical sCience--we
refer more especially to his elaborate report to
the Pharmaceutical Society, upon the cultiya-
ton of narcotic plants, in which he carefully
illuatrates how fully the active properties can
be developed, at will, by scientific culture
The profession are hardly aware of the la
Dor required to reach the deyelopements and
Improvements which have been made in the
long experience of this establishment. Be-
sides the general business, they issue valn-
able Journal of Materia Medica from their ex-
tenslve printing department, and have recently
issued their Supplement to Materia hledica,
which is valuable addition to tho library of
every physician, and useful as a reference book
tor druggists generally.
PHILIP TAGLIoNI, who delighted past
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