Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-09-27

b a genuine pleasure to visit them.
Escorted by MIR. Brunswig, the GA
zETrE man spent full hour walking
through the building and examining
into the various processes. The grocer's |
supply department contained freshly !
prepared flavoring extracts, liquid |
bluing and baking powder. In max |
ing fluid extracts the essential prop |
erty of the roots, he bs, etc. Is OBJ
tanned in LIQUID form, usu lily by dis
tillation or Representation, and in some |
instances by hydraulic process, accord |
ing to the nature of the drug handled. !
some being very volatile, are not sus.
captible to heat. and with these the
hydraulic process Is used. Elixirs,
which have been defined as elegant
pharmaceutical preparations Intended
10 disguise the unple SAINT taste of
drugs, are made by first dissolving the
drug and then giving 1t its pleasant
aromatic disguise. This is
made of Texas snake root,
Texas seneca root, of poplar
bark, etc. In the manufacture of
medicinal syrups principally foreign
drugs are used but also the wild
cherry, found abundantly in this re-
gion. There are two processes of
making syrups, the hot and the cold.
| or the former there are two varieties,
the sand bath and water bath, named
according to the article applied to eX-
tract syrups. The process used is de-
| termined by the nature of the drug.
! AS the reporter watched the operation
of making syrup of squills his mind
went back to boyhood's days, and he
| remembered how much more frequent
| his cough was when there was Il
| bottle of squills in the house.
| This delightful strip is made from the
| squill root, which is dubious in APP
pearance, and somewhat similar to the
onion. This is placed in glass jar con-
! tanning aeetic acid of 66 degrees tenn
perature, and allowed to remain thus
| for about two weeks and then perco-
| lated. This acetate of squllls is made
into the syrup by the addition of sugar.
/ In the room could be seen many jars
| in which this maceratiOn of roots was
going on. The yellow jasmine, mace
rated with alchohQl, is then by means
of still and condenser distilled
and dropped, drop by drop, until
each drop thus obtained represents u
grain OF the essential principal Of the
root. The reporter was given look
/ llllD ~ ldtEt tAlh vi atid anu
extract of sarsaparilla, which is man
utactured in quantities OF 100 gallons
at time. Paregoric, the popular
medicine of childhood's days, is man
ufactured by the fifty gallon barrel.
The curiosity of the unciemical part
of the public may be satiated by learn
ing that this much used remedy is
prepared from opium, camphor, BEN
zoic acid, diluted alcohol and honey
combined so MS to form pleasant and
agreeable dose. Every one knows
what lozenges are, and few know the
difference between taking bitter pill
or nauseous liquid, and eating a piece
of candy in which the rough medicine
has been rendered tasteless. Bushels
of lozenges of various kinds We're seen
boxed up. Bay rum, laudanGm, ia
maica ginger cologne, Florida water,
handkerchief extracts, pOmades,
cerates, blistering and other ONT
ments, etc, were also seen in quanti-
ties. Machinery is now being put in
for the manufacture of iodide and
bromide OF potash, the various prepar-
atoms of iron. soda potash and lime,
: chlorOform and ether, and it is the
intention to add gradually to the list
: as found profitable, until many more
of the staples are covered. The pro-
: prietors have asked the farmers to
, bring in samples of medicinal roots
and herbs for analysis by Mr.. Peterson.
= Whenever these indigenous roots and
| herbs can be utilized in manufacture,
they will be, and their gathering will
prove profitable revenue to farmers
and Others. The trouble with most of
> those brought in up to this time, Mr..
/. Brunswig complains, is that they are
not secured at the right season, and
are not properly dried and prepared.
For this reason it has not yet been
profitable to utilize them
: This he hopes to remedy
by giving directions to those wishing
to prepare this material for him. The
; company will not now extract the
principle of flowers for perfumes, etc
as the pomade is cheaper. That he
! thinks must be thing of the future.
The company expects u large trade
, with Mexico, in addition to that in
this country, and therefore has a
Spanish label as well as an English
one on every package sent out The
goods OF the company are not kept at
the manutactury, out ut the drug
store, corner of Houston and Fourth
the two houses being connec-
ted by telephone. Four good
), trained men are now on the road, fa-
miliarizing themselves with drug
gists and physicians, in order to be
ready To dispose of the immense guam
titles of various understandable prepara-
tions OF the works,