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Twen  ty- fifth  A  nniversary  of       { Am-  l™r\ £h7arm- 
toxin.  The  physician  specifies  "  Mulford  "  if  he  desires  the  most 
potent  and  sterile  product.  If  he  would  use  an  American  product 
in  1894  he  specified  Mulford  for  the  reason  that  it  was  the  only 
source  of  supply,  today  he  demands  the  Mulford  brand  because  he 
knows  that  it  is  an  absolutely  safe  source  of  supply. 
It  is  not  an  idle  play  with  words  to  say  that  "  diphtheria  anti- 
toxin "  suggests  "Mulford"  and  "Mulford"  "diphtheria  anti- 
toxin." We  believe  that  this  first  born  product  of  the  Mulford 
biological  laboratories  is  today  the  most  concentrated,  safe  and 
sterile  product  of  its  kind. 
The  H.  K.  Mulford  Company  was  the  pioneer  in  the  work  of 
physiological  testing  and  chemical  standardization  of  pharmaceutical 
products,  and  the  present  status  of  these  methods  of  determining 
drug  values  may  be  said  with  due  modesty  to  be  largely  owing  to 
the  work  of  the  Mulford  laboratories.  Here  the  firm  has  always 
led,  and  at  the  present  time  it  physiologically  tests  and  standardizes 
every  drug  lending  itself  to  those  methods.  Much  of  the  results  of 
this  work  have  been  given  to  the  medical  profession  through  the 
medium  of  "  working  bulletins  "  and  the  demand  for  these  for  use 
of  medical  schools  is  quite  large,  and,  it  is  needless  to  say,  cheerfully 
supplied,  as  a  contribution  to  medical  progress. 
This  Mulford  Working  Bulletin  System  receives  universal  recog- 
nition, is  kept  thoroughly  up-to-date  and,  we  may  further  state  in 
this  connection,  that  one  of  the  most  common,  and  we  are  glad  to 
add,  most  pleasant  duties  of  our  scientific  staff  is  to  afford  informa- 
tion of  the  character  outlined  above,  to  the  medical,  veterinary  and 
pharmaceutical  professions. 
Not  only  was  the  H.  K.  Mulford  Company  the  pioneer  pro- 
ducer of  diphtheria  antitoxin  on  a  commercial  scale,  but  it  has  been 
and  still  is  a  consistent  and  continued  worker  on  the  problem  of  its 
improvement,  and  the  product  of  today  concentrated,  sterilized, 
highly  potent,  furnished  in  sterile  containers,  leaves  little  to  be 
desired. 
The  production  of  diphtheria  antitoxin  was  quickly  followed  by 
tetanus  antitoxin,  antistreptococcic  serum,  the  tuberculins  (human 
and  veterinary),  until  at  this  anniversary  period  the  Mulford  bac- 
teriological laboratories  furnish  practically  every  known  and  used 
bacteriological  remedy,  all  of  them  prepared  with  Mulford  care 
and  of  Mulford  quality. 
