The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-11-18
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OF some anti-pain pills was warned by
her physician to discontinue their use. |
Believing that the physicians wanted /
. to secure her continued visits and |
make the profit upon her illness him
self, she continued the pills, but sent
some to the normal school for analy-
sis She was seriously i'll before the
analysis was made and when it came
with an imperative warning, she at
once stopped the pills, The normal
school could have no possible object
in deceiving her, and she trusted its
verdict more than that of her physi
clan
\ young woman who is resident
of Springfield forty miles in," be-
came partially paralyzed shortly after
she had taken a dose of salts prepared
for her by a local druggist.
She insisted that she had been poi
soned, and her physician sent the salts
to the normal school They proved alb
solutely harmless, and the Springfield
drug clerk evidenced his appreciation
of an honest analysis by sending guam
titles of samples to be analysed at
Westfield
AduIterated Liquors.
Saloon-keepers and liquor dealers
also began to send their products to
the school This aroused some slight
protest among the temperance folk
but as the town permits the sale of
liquors it was deemed the towns duty
to see that those liquors are pure. Ger
tainly if pure rye whiskey is bad for
man, Whist can be said for whisky that
is composed of beading oil, ammonia
and sulphuric acid? New England
rum was found to be a mixture of
ether, essence of smoke and sulphuric
acid, without a trace of molasse5.
Samples of beer proved to contain sa-
licylic acid. Ginger brandy was guilt
less of ginger or brandy. 1t contain
ed $3.50 per cent. of alcohol and was
colored with COal-tar dye. The extent
of adulteration in strong liquors can
be estimated when in a single year
out of one hundred and eight samples
of whisky submitted just two pure
brands were found. Wood alcohol was
/ frequently an adulterant. 1t is stated
that in two years of medical investi.
cation four hundred cases of blind,
ness were traced to wood alcohol and
still laboratory anlysis revealed an ex
tensve use of wood alcohol in bay
rum, witch-hazel, Jamaica ginger
paregoric, and soothing syrups. These
revelations had decided effect upoI
the drug stores of Westfeld But tn,
druggists were soon converted to tn,
school methods.
BLESS YOU" remarked one Of thu
most successful druggists, the schoo
and the professor don't hurt trade
any. For my part, I'm glad they hi
the trade, for they are putting an enc
to dope fiends. / used to sell the poo
things powders and pills that | was
suspicious of, but didn't actually know
had dope in them, and now I've sen
them all to the professor, and Their;
isn't bit of cocaine in this shop"
This druggist has a window exhib
I every year in which he places approx
ed and condemned drugs. He bold,
labels a brand of paregoric with
card bearing the words: Wood alec
hol in this-not good for baby" ant
enjoys the sensation it produces.
Then the normal school began t
experiment upon the milk served +
the people of Westfield They found
good many things the matter wit
Westfield milk. Sometimes it was We
tered; sometimes it was colored wit
annatto. Annatto is vegetable dy
that is harmless. 1t makes skim mil
have the rich yellow color suppose
to be peculiar to milk that is rich i
cream. Sometimes coal-tar dyes wer
used to color the milk. And, worst c
all, milk was found preserved wit
formaldehyde and boric acid Profe!
served by formaldehyde for eigh
years and it is still sweet. Yet it
use in any quantity has the most ser
Gus effect. The milk dealers fell int
line with the grocers and druggist
and started campaign for bette
things.
Then the butchers began to year
for the seal of approval 1t is rare I
find any preservative in fresh meat
but there was danger of disease
meat so the Westfeld butchers mad
a practice of sending the glands 4,
animals to the school These weI
tested for tuberculosis and other di
eases, and promptly reported Th
butchers warned the stockmen of tn