ON MERCURIAL PREPARATIONS. 
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retailers at prices very far below what the cost to the maker 
would be, if of the requisite purity and strength. These 
your committee would recommend to be subjected to 
similar examinations, and the results made known, in hopes 
that an evil exerting so powerful an influence on public 
health and recovery from disease, may no longer baffle 
medical skill, and consign to neglect or oblivion medicines 
which have, until lately, been considered appropriate and 
valuable remedies. 
Your committee cannot conclude without expressing their 
entire satisfaction with the great care, skill and persever- 
ance which Professor Reid has evinced in conducting these 
very laborious examinations ; for which he is, in their esti- 
mation, justly entitled to the thanks, not only of the mem- 
bers of this College, but to those of every one connected, 
in the remotest degree, with the practice of pharmacy or 
of medicine. 
The foregoing specimens are all that your committee 
were able to obtain, after diligent inquiry among the 
venders of this city. 
For the convenience of a ready examination of the re- 
sults of the inquiries of your committee, and of the relative 
values of the different specimens, the following tables are 
subjoined : — 
Table No. L 
Results of examinations of different specimens of Mer- 
curial Ointment. 
So. 
PROCURED FROM 
MANUFACTURED BY 
PER CENT- 
AGE OF 
MERCURY. 
Rushton & Co. 
James S. Aspinwall, 
Adamson & Olliff. 
Olcott, McKesson & Co. 
Mander, Weaver & Mander, 
George C. Close, 
" " said to be of 
U.S. Pharmacopoeia strength. 
George C. Close, of his usual 
commercial strength. 
Southwick & Prior. 
1* 
46 
43 
30 
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