The Pharmaceutical era . e 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 PHAKMACEUTICAL ERA. [July IJ, 1S97. FOUND ANY • TRIOS IN YOUR DRUGS? A. NEW COMMEUCIAL TEST KEroKTED KUOM OREGON, WHEllE IT LIVEU IN CULDE new pt-ril to drugs has born discovered by a corre-spondent {C. R.) iu Uregon. Tliis gi-iitlcuiau has a dyehouse among his custoiuers and tour years ago he pur-chased lifty pounds of crude argols, of which he soldten pounds t
The Pharmaceutical era . e 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 PHAKMACEUTICAL ERA. [July IJ, 1S97. FOUND ANY • TRIOS IN YOUR DRUGS? A. NEW COMMEUCIAL TEST KEroKTED KUOM OREGON, WHEllE IT LIVEU IN CULDE new pt-ril to drugs has born discovered by a corre-spondent {C. R.) iu Uregon. Tliis gi-iitlcuiau has a dyehouse among his custoiuers and tour years ago he pur-chased lifty pounds of crude argols, of which he soldten pounds to the dye house. The reuiaiuiug 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, according 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 bo.\, with. some of the , 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. Templelon, 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 employe of hisbad 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 BeutcnmUIIer,Curator of the Department of Entomology, of the Amer-ican Museum of Natural History, New York. Mr. Beu-tenmUUer has an intimate acquaintance with every sixlegged inhabitant of this part of the United States, andcan address each by name at sight, but the
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