The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-09-25
WINDOW DISPLAYS
MERIT ATTENTION
DRUG STORES SHOW MEDICINAL
PLANTS FROM COLLEGE
PHARMACY GARDEN
STRANGE PLANTS N NATIVE CONDITION
These Exhibits Show Plants Which
Drugs Are Made AZ They Appear
Before Transformation.

One of the most unique series OF win
dow displays eve seen in any city.
are on show in the windows OF the
three drug stores of Brookings this
week. In each of them are growing
plants from the medicinal plant gar
den growing at State College, planned.
planted and cultivated by Prof. r. X.
Series and his assistant, Anton Hog
stad. Such displays could only be
possible in very few of the college
cities of the country, and the druggists
are to be thanked for giving their win
dows to the publicity Of this UNUSUAL
work. The displays in the windows
of the Tidball and Kendall stores are
more varied than the one In the win
dow of the Anderson store, that n
being given entirely to a demonstra-
ton of d~igatalis. Messrs. Tollagson
and Masters, who arranged the two
first named windows, are to be con-
graduated on their painstaking work
in arranging the displays, while to
both Mr.. Anderson and Mr.. Loesch are
to be given the credit for the n in
the latter named window. Through
the courtesy of Mr.. Hogstad OF the
pharmacy department, the Register
gives the following brief resume Of
the dangers of adulteration In the
drugs that are sold from pur pharma.
cies. A knowledge of these facts will
no doubt be of service to the public
at all times.
Prior to the Food and Drugs Act
of 1905 a large number Of the drugs
on the market were commonly adul-
terated with inferior or worthless sub
stances. A great deal Of the adultera-
ton practiced at this time was purely
Of an intentional nature, some of it
however being due to carelessness and
lack of knowledge on the part of
the drug collectors. Even today, In,
~tentional drug adulteration Is being
practiced and to be able to detect
some of the authorizations now being
being practiced requires the need OF
a skilled pharmacognocist. AS fea-
tured In the Anderson Pharmacy Olga
tails display, our common foxglove or
d~igatalis which Is n Of the most Inn
p~ortant heart stimulants used In the
medical practice Is often adulterated
with mullen. leaves, matico leaves OF
with an inferior grade of digatalis
leaves. The following is a list of some
drug authorizations:
Asafoedida with sand, dirt, wood,
stones. etc.
Rhubarb, the interior being loaded
with lead, stones, shot, etc.
Deadly nightshade with the leaves
Of black nightshade and poke leaves.
Cinnamon with cinnamon bark from
which the oil has been removed or
with cinnamon that had all the oil ex-
tracted over which a few drops of Oil
of cinnamon had been scattered to
give it the characteristic odor.
Powdered drugs with the different
starches or with exhausted drug ma
~terials.
A few years ago the writer CHANGED
to examine a bar Of Burgundy pitch,
/ inch square and IL inches long, in
which was placed a bar Of iron, k-inch
square and 10 inches Ion.
Sweet Chocolate with wheat -four,
corn starch, peanut meal, peas.
acorns and cocoa shells.
Black pepper with ground olive pits.
"a very common adulteration one
time.)
Sage, buchu, marjoram, SIENNA, etc.,
with leaves Of other plants bearing q
close similarity.
Lycopodium or busting powder with
colored corn starch.
Roots, rhizomes admixed with wormy
materials.
Volatile oils with cheaper grade
of oils, especially with oil of turpen-
tine.