[Report 1908] / Medical Officer of Health, Kidderminster Borough.

  • Kidderminster (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1908
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Credit: [Report 1908] / Medical Officer of Health, Kidderminster Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    oq,i £}\Qged Ij!n^ss from a Decoction of Herbs.—On Oct. ,th’ !908’ a medical man brought to the Health Office a portion of a decoction of Boneset, which he said had caused two of his pa lents to e made seriously ill, the symptoms resembling Belladonna poisoning. We forwarded the decoction and also some of the herb to the Public Analyst, who reported as follows : [COPY], E. W. T. JONES, F.I C. Public Analyst’s Laboratory, 10, Victoria Street, Wolverhampton, 7th November, 1908. Sale of food and Drugs act. 1S75. CERTIFICATE to Mr. J. T. Cowderoy. I, the undersigned, Public Analyst for the Borough of Kidderminster, do hereby certify that I received on the 31st October,^ 1908, from Mr. J. T. Cowderoy, a sample of “Decoction of Doneset for analysis, and have analyzed the same and declare the result of my analysis to be as follows : v} aiTJ °f opinion that the said sample contained 1 *41 percent, of solid matter in solution. I can find nothing present inconsistent with its being a genuine decoction of Empatorium Perfoliatum Thorough- wort or Boneset. Neither this nor its preparations have any official recognition in Great Britain. v E. W. T. JONES, F.I.C., Boro’ Analyst. COPY]. E. W. T. JONES, F.I.C. Public Analyst’s Laboratory, 10, Victoria Street, Wolverhampton, 7th November, 1908. Safe of food and grugg act, 1875. CERTIFICATE to Mr. J. T. Cowderoy. b the undersigned, Public Analyst for the Borough of Kidderminster, do hereby certify that I received on the 31st October, 1908, from Mr. J. T. Cowderoy, a sample of “Boneset” for ana ysis and have analyzed the same, and declare the result of mv analysis to be as follows : y I am of opinion that the said sample consists of the flowering tops o Empatoiium Perfoliatum Thoroughwort or Boneset. No foreign matter is present, hence I consider it genuine. E. W. T. JONES, F.I.C., Boro’ Analyst.