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Maine Agricultural Experiment Station. 1917. 



SPIRIT OF NITROUS ETHER. 



Table showing results of analyses of samples of spirit of nitrous ether 

 {sweet spirit of nitre) purchased in the fall and winter of 1914-15 and 

 in the fall of 1915. Properly prepared spirit of nitrous ether will carry 

 g2 per cent alcohol and not less than 4 per cent ethyl nitrite. The 

 samples are arranged alphabetically by towns. 



M a 



Name and Address of Dealer and 

 Maker and Brand. 



Results of Examination 

 As Regards Ethyl Nitrite 



16006 Curtis & Tupper, Bangor. "Sweet Spirit 

 of Nitre. Alcohol 92 per cent." 



16578 (Curtis & Tupper, Bangor. "Sweet Spirit 

 of Nitre. Alcohol 92 per cent '" 



13950 Frank Karam, Bangor. "Stickney & Poor's 

 Best Sweet Spirits Nitre. Stickney & 

 Poor Spice Co., Boston, Mass. 91 per 

 cent alcohol." 



13951 Frank Karam, Bangor. "Dill's Sweet 

 Spirits of Nitre. Alcohol 92 per cent. 

 Prepared by The Dill Medicine Co., 

 Norristown, Pa." 



15992 Priest's Pharmacy, Bangor. "Sweet Spirit 

 of Nitre. Alcohol 92 per cent." 



15994 Riker-Jaynes Co., Bangor. "Spirits Ni- 

 trous Ether. Alcohol 92 per cent." 



15699 L. D. Snow Est, Brunswick. "Dr. Dill's 

 Sweet Spirits Nitre. 92 per cent al- 

 cohol. Prepared by The Dill Medicine 

 Co., Norristown, Pa." 



Eighty-two per cent of standard 

 strength. Adulterated. 



Eighty-seven per cent of standard 

 strength. Adulterated. 



Slightly below standard strength. 



Forty-three per cent of standard 

 strength. Adulterated. 



15870 G. H. Gates, East Vassalboro. "Spirit 

 Nitrous Ether. Alcohol 94 per cent. 

 Mfg. 'April 8, 1915, John W. Perkins Co., 

 Portland. Not to be dispensed after 

 12 weeks." 



P. E. Frost, Monmouth. "Pure U. S. P. 

 Nitre. Derivation of alcohol 93 per cent 

 (Date Dec. 29, 1914). Mfg. by Frank 

 E. Harris, Binghampton, N. Y. 



15869 W. A, Marriner. North Vassalboro. "Three 

 Crow Brand Spirit Nitrous Ether. Con- 

 tains not over 92 per cent alcohol. The 

 Atlantic Spice Co., Rockland, Me." 



16018 Samuel J. Foster, Oakland. "Sweet Spir- 

 its of Nitre. Alcohol 92 per cent." 



1.33,58 F. W. Demerritt, Ocean Park, Old Or- 

 chard. "Brewster's Pure U. S. P. Sweet 

 ' Spirit Nitre. Alcohol 92 per cent." 



I.33.59F. W. Demerritt, Ocean Park, Old Or- 

 chard. "Foss' Pure Spirit Nitrous Ether 

 or Sweet Spirit Nitre. Contains 92 

 per cent alcohol. Prepared by Schlot- 

 terbeck & Foss Co.. Portland, Me. The 

 contents of this bottle should not be 

 sold or used after October 18, 1913." 



1.5998 E. T. Fifield & Co., South Brewer. "Sweet 

 Spirits Nitre. Alcohol 92 per cent." 



|Fifty-eight per cent of standard 

 J strength. Adulterated. 



I 



Eighty-seven per cent of standard 

 strength. Adulterated. 



Two bottles. One bottle seventy- 

 three per cent of standard 

 strength; other bottle eighty-three 

 per cent of standard strength. 

 Adulterated. 



Seventy-one per cent of standard 

 strength. Adulterated. 



Slightly below standard strength. 



Eighty-four per cent of standard 

 strength. Adulterated. 



I Eighty per cent of standard 

 strength. Adulterated. 



Slightly below standard strength. 

 Above standard strength. 



Eighty-one per cent of standard 

 strength. Adulterated. 



