New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . ella Company. MERCK & CO. This House is best characterized by describing it as acentral point of collection and distribution of all the sub-stances embraced by the Materia Medica ; that is, theyeither make, or import, exjjort, or handle nearly everyknown medicinal substance on the face of the globe—nomatter how far from us its place of growth, production, ordestination may be situated. Their published list (thoughincomplete), comprising over 4,000 drugs and preparations,covers about every chemical or ])harmaceutical substanc
New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . ella Company. MERCK & CO. This House is best characterized by describing it as acentral point of collection and distribution of all the sub-stances embraced by the Materia Medica ; that is, theyeither make, or import, exjjort, or handle nearly everyknown medicinal substance on the face of the globe—nomatter how far from us its place of growth, production, ordestination may be situated. Their published list (thoughincomplete), comprising over 4,000 drugs and preparations,covers about every chemical or ])harmaceutical substanceemployed in the composition of medicines, in analyticalchemistry, in bacteriological and physiological researches,and in all the thousands of various scientific and industrialprocesses. As very many—in fact, the large majority — ofall the potent drugs and finer chemicals used in themedical art, are the products of distant climes and otherlands, the universal character of the house, as above indi-cated, naturally necessitates their connection with all the. ilKRC K lU ILIiIXc; WORLDS FAIR. CHICAGO. centres of drug and chemical jiroduttion the world is evident, among other things, by their having thesole right of sale, in the United States, for the pharmaceu-tical products of many of the leading chemical manufac-tories and drug-depots of Europe: E. Merck, Darmstadt;Kalle Co., and Lembach & Schleicher, Biebrich on theRhine ; The Actien-Gesellschaft fuer Chemische Industrie,Mannheim ; Cordes, Hermanni & Co., and Wm. Pearson &Co., Hamburg ; Knoll & Co., Ludwigshafen on the Rhine ;E. Loeflund & Co., Stuttgart, and many others. Of theseabove-named firms, assuredly the most characteristic isthat of E. Merck in Darmstadt. This Chemical Manufac-tory is remarkable at once for possessing the oldest, thelargest, and the best-known Chemical Laboratory in exist-ence anywhere. It was founded in 1668—two and aquarter centuries ago. The reader may feel interested tosee a reprod
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