American journal of pharmacy . of the United StatesPharmacopoeia at Washington in May took the occasion to visit theNational Museum and see the display of articles of medical interestwhich has been organized there in the Medical Division under thesupervision of Mr. F. L. Lewton, curator, and of Mr. C. White-bread, the assistant curator of that division. Through the courtesy of Mr. Whitebread I am able to present aphotograph of one of these displays which will give an idea of the Am. Jour. , 1920. Medical Division of National Museum. 663 pains which the museum authorities have ta
American journal of pharmacy . of the United StatesPharmacopoeia at Washington in May took the occasion to visit theNational Museum and see the display of articles of medical interestwhich has been organized there in the Medical Division under thesupervision of Mr. F. L. Lewton, curator, and of Mr. C. White-bread, the assistant curator of that division. Through the courtesy of Mr. Whitebread I am able to present aphotograph of one of these displays which will give an idea of the Am. Jour. , 1920. Medical Division of National Museum. 663 pains which the museum authorities have taken in the preparationof the exhibit. The still shown in the accompanying illustration is used for thedistillation of the oil from the bark of the Betula Lenta, the blackor sweet birch which abounds in the mountains of the Carolinas,eastern Tennessee, Kentucky, and some sections of Connecticut andPennsylvania. In Connecticut the oil is obtained from the twigsof the small birch bushes, the supply of trees having been Distilling Birch Oil in the Carolina a model shown in the Medical Division of the National Museum at Washington, The illustration shows a model of a North Carolina still in opera-tion which is exhibited in the Division of Medicine of the NationalMuseum at Washington. The exhibit was prepared under thesupervision of Mr. C. Whitebread. 664 Medical Division of National Museum. { Sptamber 1920: The still used in the Carolinas is about 8 or 10 feet long andabout 4 or 5 feet high and about the same width. The still is made ofwood, except the bottom, which consists of sheet iron. Between 8and 9 inches from the bottom is a false bottom of wire mesh orperforated sheet iron. In Connecticut, however, the industry is on a more permanentbasis. The stills are larger and more effective than that shown in theillustration, and each distillery has a warehouse in which it stores thetwigs and brush which are used for distillation, these plants beingquite exte
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