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made, variations are noted and corrected, until the preparations 
correspond in medicinal strength with the adopted standard ex¬ 
tracts. The name of one of the greatest pharmaceutical manu¬ 
facturing houses in this country is so closely linked with the 
phrase drug standardization,” that the mere mention of one 
suggests the other. Parke, Davis & Co. began years ago to 
manufacture a full line of standardized fluid extracts that are 
guaranteed to be of definite and uniform strength. More re¬ 
cently they devised and perfected methods for standardizing 
physiologically those important drugs that are incapable of 
analysis by chemical processes. Parke, Davis & Co. have done 
a great deal for the medical profession and for humanity, and 
standardization, more especially physiological standardization, 
is one of their greatest achievements. 
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