Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-04-14
Pure Medicinal preparatIOns.

rive copy the annexed article from the New
York Druggists Price Current as 1t 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
o 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 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
W lac 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.
lneers in new methods of preparation or the
administration of med cal agents, and who
ever promulgates a new theory at once sub
iects himself to the severest criticisms, and
success can only be realized when the inn
provement offered has been put through the
crucible of professional scrutiny, and thor
oughly tested by practical application on a
scale sufficient to afford unquestionable re-
suits, and this is the only way we have ever
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 alb
solutely necessary for our success; hence 1T 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 ofthe
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 IL Co., of New
Lebanon, and in this city-and II space would
| allow, we are sure the majority of our read
ers would like 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. 5.
Pharmacop9ia, concentrations, and many OF
the most valuable pharmaceutical prepara-
| tions
Frvm the beginning on small scale with
| the vacuum apparatus, which was then
scarcely known, they have studied, assiduous
| vs.
| perence 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 o
medicinal agents, and Their works have been
remodeled and received additions from tint
to time, until the premises now occupy about
half an acre of ground, and the vast amount
ofmachincry is driven by powerful steam
engine located in an adjoining fire-proo
| building.
Anything like description of the numer
ous appliances i'll the different departments o
their extensive laboratory, would require NOR
than the columns of our paper but we cal
give some idea when we state that the capac
ity of the entire number of vacuum pans EN-
ployed exceeds six thousand gallons, ant
these are used in the manufacture of solid ant
, fluid extracts.
In the department for pills and granule
every recent improvement is adopted, besid
the various devices for saving labor and vast
of ofmaterial, which are the result of long an
practical experience in the manipulation q
the more delicate combinations of poten
drugs, and the necessity of accurate an
strictly correct exhibition of quantities re
quired in the minutest attcnuations.
the advantages enjoyed by the Messr:
Tilden, of a local character, are worthy {
mention, and explain how they have attaine
such q reputation for the efficiency an
medicinal value of their preparations.
All the herbs, barks and roots of indigenou
growth are gathered by those who have Ell
perience, and each and every articles
} brought into the laboratory at the seaso
when 1t contains most of medicinal value.
large amount of these materials are gathere
by the farmers and others over large sectio
, of country around the laboratory, and, in a(
, dition to such supplies, the Messrs. Tide
have under cultivation forty acres near the
, premises.
These advantages, acquired by long c,
perience and patient as well as persistent Il
Dor, afford the facilities which are of create
: importance in this business, and cannot
G enjoyed except by those similarly situatei
: and giving attention, more or less to the eli
tivation of indigenous medicinal product
and so as to get all the benefits of improve
culture.
e In this connection, it is only doing iusti,
: to speak of Mr.. IL. A. Tilden's various ar
Y important contributions to medical science
I we refer more especially to his elaborate r
r port to the Pharmaceutical Society upon Il
g cultivation of narcotic plants, in which
carefully illustrates how fully the active pro
/. critics can be developed, at will, by scientii
u culture.
c The profession are hardly aware of the ]
: bor required to reach the developments al
l. improvements which have been made in Il
e long experience of this establishment.
q sides the general business, they issue val
able Journal of Materia Medica from the
extensive printing department, and have I
g Gently issued their Supplement to Mater
IL Medica, which is available addition to +
g library of every physician, and useful as r.
IT erence book for druggists generally.
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