. The Pharmaceutical era. tothe doctors equipment? Will the medicos be forced toreturn to the old custom of keeping their own drug sup-plies? There is a significance in this paragraph which thedruggists should not disregard. 68 THE PHARMACEUTICAL ERA. [July 15, 1897. FOUND ANY TRIOS IN YOUR DRUGS? A NEW CUMMKIUIAL TEST ItlOroUTlOIi KUOM ORE-GON. WUEltE IT LIVED IX (HLDE new peril to drugs has been discovered by a corre-spondent (C. K.) in Oregon. This geutleiiiau has a dyehouse among his customers and four years ago he pur-chased tifty pciunds of crude argols, of which he soldten poun
. The Pharmaceutical era. tothe doctors equipment? Will the medicos be forced toreturn to the old custom of keeping their own drug sup-plies? There is a significance in this paragraph which thedruggists should not disregard. 68 THE PHARMACEUTICAL ERA. [July 15, 1897. FOUND ANY TRIOS IN YOUR DRUGS? A NEW CUMMKIUIAL TEST ItlOroUTlOIi KUOM ORE-GON. WUEltE IT LIVED IX (HLDE new peril to drugs has been discovered by a corre-spondent (C. K.) in Oregon. This geutleiiiau has a dyehouse among his customers and four years ago he pur-chased tifty pciunds of crude argols, of which he soldten pounds to the dye house. The remaining forty poundswas kept in tin cans. A year later these cans wereopened, and were found to contain a few bugs about atenth of an inch long and of a brown color. The boxeswere closed air tight, acooi-ding to the correspondent, andwere not opened again for two years, when the contentswere found to be a living mass of bugs, lie sent a fewspecimens of the insect inclosed in a flat tin box, with. some of the argols, to the Pharmaceutical Era to learnwhat the new pest was. Crude argols is the name applied to the crude saltsof tartar deposited on the sides of wine casks, and, asBenjamin G. Templeton, of the New York Tartar Com-pany, in the Woodbridge Building, knows all about tar-tar, the specimens were shown to him. He had neverheard of insects in crude argols, but an employ^ of hishad seen something of the kind. His opinion was thatthe insects lived, not on the tartar, but on the sugar, al-bumin and other extraneous matter present. When heexamined these bugs, however, he declared that theywere not the same as he had seen, and he was unableto name them. The samples were submitted to William Beutenmiiller,Curator of the Department of Entomology, of the Amer-ican Museum of Natural History, New York. Mr. Beu-tenmiiller has an intimate acquaintance with every sixlegged inhabitant of this part of the United States, andcan address each by name at sight, but
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