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feetly adapted to the required purpose, that the entire process 
is conducted with wonderful celerity ; indeed, many quarters 
of malt can be daily converted into the Kepler Extract of 
Malt. 
The machinery employed in manufacturing the Kepler Solu- 
tion, which, as is now well-known, is a pure cod liver oil per- 
fectly dissolved in extract of malt, is so complete as to allow 
an output of several thousand bottles daily. Many forms of 
apparatus had to be constructed and tested in manifold ways 
before one was obtained adapted to all the requirements, as is 
that now used. 
To one visiting this factory, where are manufactured some 
of the most elegant and valuable of pharmaceutical prepara- 
tions, everything appears scrupulously clean and supremely 
systematic ; and yet there probably never was a factory where 
the comforts and gratification of its many workers were more 
considerately looked after. The firm does its own printing, 
and to recount in order everything from the Alpha to the 
Omega of its details would fill many a page. 
Having described at such length the method of manufactur- 
ing extract of malt, we can only devote a small space to a 
description of the factory itself. As already stated, the 
building (which consists of four floors), was formerly used as 
a granary, and it is so situated on the river bank that vessels 
<;an come alongside to receive and discharge their cargoes. 
The ground floor contains in one division, engine, vacuum 
pump, water pumpt , and filtering apparatus for malt^ In a 
second compartment machinery for making the Kepler Solu- 
tion of Cod Liver Oil in Malt Extract. The third and re- 
maining space is set aside for the manufacture of beef and 
iron wine, and other preparations. 
On the second floor are the private laboratory, fitted with 
all kinds of chemical apparatus for experimentation, analysis, 
Ac., the large vacuum pan, a smaller vacuum pan with special 
condensing apparatus, to which is adapted a powerful pump 
which creates a perfect vacuum. The small vacuum pan is 
reserved for purposes of experimentation in connection with 
the preparation of malt extracts as rich as possible in dias- 
tase. This floor also contains the store room for malt, malt 
mill of extensive working capacity, and the mashing appara- 
tus, of large dimensions ; a remarkably complete percolating 
apparatus worked by hydraulic pressure, besides a room for 
mechanical work, wherein are made machinery and fine 
apparatus used in the various processes. This room (the 
engineer’s) is fitted with a varied assortment of complete and 
complicated machines and tools. 
The third floor is divided primarily into two compartments, 
one specially set apart for the manufacture of “ Tahlets'^ or 
“ TahlouU'^ of compressed drugs, &c. These tablets contain 
no excipient, and are made by enormous pressure upon the 
pure drug alone. In this place are several automatic ma- 
chines by which all the tablets are made, and capable of 
turning out 200,000 daily. Here, also, are the hypodermic 
tabloids made. We were shown the alkoloids and active prin- 
ciples, some of them in coloured ‘bottles, all kept perfectly dry 
and in the dark, and under lock and key. We could not but 
note the scrupulous care requisite to preserve intact the awful 
potency for good or evil of these different isolated principles. 
One bottle was more poisonous than a field of noxious herbs. 
This compartment is provided with a fine drying room, where 
the temperature is kept at the different degrees in different 
divisions of it, according to the requirements in manufactur- 
ing the compressad tablets. 
The second compartment of the third floor, situated oppo- 
site the other, is where a large number of empIoy6s are em- 
ployed in packing, bottling, &c. The whole of these processes, 
is- superintended by a scientific chemist with his assistant and 
several engineers to superintend the working of all this com- 
plicated and costly machinery. 
The fourth floor of the factory is kept for storing the enor* 
mous quantities of different cartoons, packages, d'c. 
Respecting the other numerous effective and elegant phar- 
maceutical preparations which Messrs. Burroughs, Wellcome- 
and Co. have placed within the reach of the profession it is 
not our intention to speak in the present article. This, how 
ever, we may say, that the profession is much indebted to- 
them for adopting, suggestions and perfecting methods of 
manufacture— regardless of cost— so as to ensure efficiency 
and accurate dosage ; and, we believe, that their labours are 
well appreciated. One great and commendable feature in the 
mode of conducting their business is worthy of notice. Any 
medical man may write to them, giving his experience of the 
use of their preparations in the full assurance that his con- 
fidence will not be abused by the publication of his name and 
testimonial side by side with quack advertisements in the lay 
newspapers, as is too often done by other manufacturers of 
medicinial specialities. 
The Hospital Gazette and Students' Journal, 
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