20 Maine Agricultural Experiment Station. 1919. 



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In writing prescriptions the physician has to rely upon 

 the care and accuracy of the pharmacist in filling them. If 

 dosage means anything, accuracy in filling prescriptions is es- 

 sential. The uncertainty of accurate prescription filling is one 

 of the reasons that is leading physicians more and more to 

 prescribe formulas that are carefully prepared by reliable drug 

 manufacturers and sold under registered trade mark. 



The headache remedies are for the most part proprietory 

 articles and are made of powerful and dangerous drugs. On 

 this account they are examined at not too infrequent intervals 

 to be sure they are of claimed strength and properly labelled. 



In the case of foods, samples of ice cream were collected 

 at random to keep a measure over the manufacture. Maine 

 is one of the states having the best quality of ice cream of- 

 fered in America. The standard was placed high and for the 

 most part there has been an intelligent desire on the part of 

 the ice cream manufacturers to maintain the standard. 



The samples of molasses were collected to see if, because 

 of the scarcity of sugar in the war period, any serious adultera- 

 tion was taking place. 



INDEX 



PAGE 



Butter 18 



Headache Remedies < 10 



Ice Cream 16 



Molasses 17 



Opened Clams 19 



Opened Oysters 19 



Spirit of Camphor 6 



Spirit of Nitrous Ether 3 



