Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-04-13
Pure Medicinal Preparations.


I'VE copy the annexed article from the New
York DruggistS Price Current, as it gives in
formation which is not only of importance to
the medical profession, but to the public gen.
erallyl.
The history of improvements made within
few years past, in the preparation of medi-
cal agents, Is scarcely known except by the
more intelligent class of druggists and the
medical profession, and a statement embrac-
ing all the really valuable additions to phar-
macy and the convenience of the physician,
would be entertaining 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 especially the improvements, which ex-
perience has amply demonstrated to be of
value to the world at large. Every careful
reader of the leading medical journals pub
lished, at home and abroad, must be aware of
the great difficulty encountered by the pio-
neers in new methods of preparation or the
administration of medical agents, and who
ever promulgates new theory at once sub
jects himself to the severest criticisms, and
success can only be realized when the I'M
provement offered has been put through the
crucible of professional scrutiny, and thor
oughly tested by practical application on
scale sufficient to afford unquestionable re-
suits, and this is the only way we have ever
arrived at q proper estimate of the real and
value Oh 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 alb
solutely necessary for our success; hence 1t is
that, fromithe earliest times, the medical pro-
1ession 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 gen.
eral terms, as our object was to give our read
ers 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 q Co., of New
Lebanon, and in this city-and, il space would
allow, we are sure the majority of our read
ers would like more details than we can give
1t is no$ nearly twenty years since the
Messrs. TILDEN commenced the manufacture
of their Z" fluid and solid extracts" in vacuo,
to which they have since added "sugar-
coated pills and granules," of the U. ;.
Pharmacopeia, concentrations, and many OF
the most valuable pharmaceutical prepara-
| tions.
Frvm the beginning on a small scale with
the vacuum apparatus, which was then
| 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 oi
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 a powerful steam
| engine located in an adjoining fre-prooi
| building.
| Anything like a 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 ofmaterial, which are the result of a long and
practical experience in the manipulation oi
the more delicate combinations of potent
drugs, and the necessity of accurate and
stcictly correct exhibition of quantities re.
quired in the minutest attenuations.
The advantages enjoyed by the Messrs
| Tilden, of a local character, are worthy o
mention, 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 ex
perience, and each and every articles i;
brought into the laboratory at the season
when it contains most of medicinal value.
large amount of these materials are gathered
by the farmers and Others over large section
OF country around the laboratory, and, in ad
dition to such supplies, the Messrs. TildeI
have under cultivation forty acres near thei
premises.
These advantages, acquired by long ex
perience and patient as well as persistent Ia
Dor, afford the facilities which are of creates
Importance in this business, and cannot b'
enjoyed except by thoss. 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 improves
culture.
In this connection, it is only doing justic
to speak of Mr.. ii. A. Tilden's various an,
important contributions to medical science
we refer more especially to his elaborate re
port to the Pharmaceutical Society upon tn
cultivation of narcotic plants, in which b
carefully illustrates how fully the active prop
critics can be developed, at will, by scientih
culture.
The profession are hardly aware of the la
. Dor required to reach the developments an
improvements which have been made in tn
long experience of this establishment. Be
sides the general business, they issue valu
able Journal of Materia Medica from thei
extensive printing department, and have re
Gently issued their Supplement 10 Materi
Medica, which is valuable addition to tn
library of every physician, and useful as re
erence book for druggists generally.
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