THE 
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACY. 
APRIL, 1844. 
ART. J.— REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON MERCURIAL 
PREPARATIONS, OF THE COLLEGE OF PHARMACY, 
NEW YORK. 
The standing committee of inspection, assisted by the 
Professor of Chemistry, and by certain members of the 
Board of Trustees, specially appointed to examine the 
various samples of mercurial ointment and blue pill mass 
to be found in this market, beg leave to report : — 
That they collected from different venders, and not from 
the manufacturers themselves, the following specimens of 
those articles, all of which have been subjected to a rigorous 
examination by Mr. Lawrence Reid, Professor of Chemistry 
to the College, and the following results have been obtained : 
1st. A specimen of mercurial ointment procured from 
Messrs. Rushton & Co., manufactured by Mander, Weaver 
& Mander, of Wolverhampton, England, imported by 
E. S. Inness, eight or nine months since, was found to con- 
tain forty-six per centum of mercury. 
2d. Ointment procured from James S. Aspinwall, manu- 
factured by George C. Close, within the last three months, 
was found to contain thirty and a per cent, of mercury. 
3d. Ointment procured from Adamson & Olliff, manufac- 
tured by George C, Close, about eight months since, and 
professing to be of the strength ordered by the Pharmaco- 
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