State Board of Health : report of Willis G. Tucker, analyst of drugs.

  • New York (State). Board of Health.
Date:
[1889]
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Credit: State Board of Health : report of Willis G. Tucker, analyst of drugs. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    intentionally adulterated nor decidedly below such standard, and of ‘inferior quality,’ if clearly adulterated or falsified, lacking in any important constituent, deficient in strength from improper manu- facture, partial or complete decomposition or other causes, or containing an undue amount of impurity. In some cases, through ignorance or intent, a wrong article has been sold or some inferior article of a nature similar to that called for has been substituted, and such samples have been classed under the head ‘ not as called for.’ ” Articles like the diluted acids, possessing excessive strength, have been classed under that head. The reports have also stated the respects in which samples not of good quality have been found to be deficient or inferior, and have given such other particulars as have been deemed necessary in special cases. Not having been published elsewhere these reports are now col- lected and embodied in this annual report. Selection of Samples. The object of the work, as now carried on, being not so much to determine the proportion of adulterated to pure drugs now found upon the market, as to expose actual adulteration, sophistication and carelessness in the preparation of common drugs and pliarmacopceial compounds; inform the public and caution dealers, no attempt has been made to collect a great variety of articles. Therefore, such as are known to be seldom adulterated or impure have not been called for but such substances have been selected as would test the knowledge, accuracy and integrity of the dealer. Some rather unimportant drugs have been collected for this reason though none but officinal (pharmaeopoeial) articles have been called for. Medicinal alkaloids and preparations containing them having been assigned to another analyst, such articles have been omitted in the collection of samples. Notification of Dealers. Notices have, as heretofore, been promptly sent from the central office to all dealers whose samples have been found to be of inferior quality, warning them to desist from the sale of such articles and it is believed that these notices, which have in most cases been gratefully received and cheerfully complied with, have had a most salutary effect in correcting various errors and abuses. In a