, 1874-07-12
drugs that arc sold at wholesale are pretty much
wha; they pretend to be?
LII. Y. Sizes, do, most assurelly.

+ drugs chat are sold at wholesale arc pretty mu
wha; they pretend to be /?
s LII. Y. Sizes. do, most assuredly.
( Tultunn & King.
The reporter also called on Tolman l. Elm,
doiug large business in the drny line on Lal
street. Mr.. King said, also, that there We
: very few articles nowadays in tile drug line til.
are mixed with inferior compounds.
Raporter-1 am surprised to hear it, becapeo
J general impression prevails that drugs a.
greatly adnlteratel.
afr. Kirg-Wcll. that is u great mistake. I'll
fact is it docs not pay; and, while l an ma
who might ,e bought il the consideration wer
high enough. would not kill man for z
cents. I really would not.
! R.-Well, must say, cir, that I like to SOC
man fix high value on life. But, joking aside
arc there really not great many things that IT
impure and dangerous, when they are repre-
sentel otherwise?
REFORM IN THE TRADE.
/ ATr. RI seriously believe not. The dru
trade il not what it used to be. There is 4 rcr
| high standard maintained, and necessarily 80
because the results OF drugs are 30 easily trace
able. l. physician gives pationt dose o
medicine with the expectation Of accomplishing
certain results il he does not, he oxainines TIL
medicine, aud. finding it wrong, falls back upo1
the retailer, who. in turn. comes back to th'
necessary to deal only With tile grinders man.
| ufacturers who put up pure and reliable ar
tico. Now, i'll these. strong drugs like morphine
| and quinine, tho least ms'rAel is dose. It il
absurd to think that a druggist can impose &
counterfeit on any intelligent doctor. A taste oil
it would convict hin OF swiuung, aud his repu-
tation would be gone.
| CREAM OF TARTAR.
! R.-But, for instance, take the article Of cream
| OF tartar (she reporter suddenly remembers ths
! complaint OF his landlady relative 10 this mix
turc), now about that?
Mr. k.-We!l, thnt is not a medicine. Cream
Of tartar sells at 23 cents pound Ut RETAIL NJ.
told, and we sell it in tue crystal 1t wholesale Of
| II cents; Of course, there must be large aiut-
| terarion somewhere. There are two grades, by
the way. What We call commercial sells at IS
cents.
N.-This is warranted to be adulterated, r
| suppose?
Ar. X. Qaughins)I guees go.
I.-Do you sell patent 1nedicines2
Mr.. E.-Of cou,se, but do not recommend
them. guess the most OF them are bud. They
guarantee to brins; dead man to life almost,
aud people beliovo it. do not know what they
arc made of. bava no doubt that some of them
would destroy III iron kettle, but then there are
others that STANDARD medicines. Javue's
Ayers, kennody's Discovery, and many others
ara reliable medicines used By physiciaus oyarJ-
where.
NO ADULTERATIoN.
R.-Then it is ruistcke to suppose that drugs
arc aduterated to auv extent:
Mr. k.-DrugB in the bulk can be easily
analyzed, end become familiar to the eye Of
those who handle them, SO TINT deception ia
moro susceptible to ndulteration, but az have
said. they arc detected, aud sent back. Ii t.re
is anything adulterated to any great extent, it IL
the comparatively harmless articles that so into
the preparation OF food.
SPECIAL INSTANCE.
R.-D0 You knoY Of auY instances where
wholesale druggists have sent out q counter
felt?
Mr.. RI have heard some stories about
house that sent out several hundred pounds Of
something they callod quinine but it was not.
I cannot tell you tho whole story. It happened
few weeks ago.
The reporter, after leaving tho store of Toll
man t. Hing, stepped into another establishment
and asked the clerk il he knew tho facts III the
story alluded to. lie said that he did, and that
firm had used the "p. & W" original bottles
labelled quinine and had put into them some
kind Of a harmless white powder nearly reac1n-
bling the drug it pretended to be. Of course tho
Substitution was detected, aud the stuff scut
back. The New York firm whose brand had been
used had them put under bonds Ct $20, 000 for
damages, aud tue other wholesale druggists in
that city united III agreement not 10 deal with
the firm that WIS guilty OF The fraud.
Fuller x Fuller.
The reporter next called upon Fuller l. Fuller,
to ascertain their yloWs eiuinS tue auuLer-
alton Of d:uSs. He was cour:eously received by
Mr.. Fuller, aud Ehown through tue large estal-
Fuller said that he knew the impression existed
II the public mind that drugs were greatly adul-
terated, but
IT WAS THING OF TRADITION.
and not OF fact People were demanding the
best articles OF ull kinds now. Tho dry goods !
store must have tile best in its line. So must the
tailo- and the bootn1axer, and the artist, and it
all arose from the fat that people were becoming
educated to know these things. They could |
not sell counterfeit articles ii WAS no use to try.
some that were adufterated without doubt, but |
they had no demand but for the best aud purest
now. Take for instance
WEITE LEAD;
they formerly sold large quantities OF cheap
grade, but the demand fell oil, and they do not
now keep it III stock at all, aud 80 it was in ali
other things.
Koportcr-Your business has very wide
range, l believe?
Mr.. Fuller-lee. We sell to almost every
branch Of Manufacture.
R.-Can you give me- some idea OF this?
Mr. F.-Certainly. We sell, to the irou manu-
bora2, muriato of ammonia, and salt
Detre; to tho tanners, oil of japonica and alum
% thepapcr~nakers, soda and bcachlD5 powder,
Ind coloripgs of ali kinds; to the stonecuttera,
3umlce-stonc; to the brewers, isinglaus; TO the
soda to tho metal-workers, potash |
% tho wool-mls. lard oil and dyes; to the con-
ectloner, taTtnr1c nud clrlo aclus, esseEtlal OILS
md colorings, and so on.
R.-lou omitted tho druggists.
11r. F.-les, We sell them pure drugs, md I
>elieyo every Wholesale drug-house III this city
ioes the same to their customers. Tho impress
lion il altogether wrong that a class deal
II adultetated mixtures The houses that fur
lish US our chemicals and compounds stake their
equations On the absolute purity Of their goods,
which you will see by the labels warranted.
Finding that thore was striking unauiulity Of
opinion, to say the least, among tue wholesale
ealers. the repor-er withdrew from this branch
4 the drug business and gave some attention to
he retail stores.
WHAT a DRUGGIST SAYS.
DR.. James L. Rayner, Of the woll-known drug
rm OF Buck i Kayner, WAS also subjected to d
cportorial cross-exa1nination.
Keporter-Dr. Raynor, will you DO kind
nough to tell mo what class Of drugs are most
able to atlulteration or substitutiou7
Dr.. Rayncr-Ihat 1s a question that requires
ono little consideration. There ie such an I'M