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A  notable  instance  of  the  improvements  made  in  bacteriological 
therapeutics  is  found  in  the  work  of  the  Mulford  Veterinary 
Laboratories,  on  hog  cholera  serum,  as  they  have  succeeded  after 
long  and  expensive  experimentation  in  furnishing  for  the  first  time, 
two  sera,  one  a  potent,  sterile  serum,  free  from  corpuscular  debris, 
the  other  a  trebly  concentrated  clear,  potent  sterile  hog  cholera 
serum  globulin.  The  value  to  the  community  of  this  work  alone  is 
incalculable. 
In  1908  the  firm  established  a  veterinary  department  to  meet  its 
very  large  and  increasing  veterinary  business,  and  the  Mulford 
combined  Price-List  and  Visiting  List,  the  Mulford  Veterinary  Bul- 
letin, and  the  Mulford  veterinary  products  are  known  and  appre- 
ciated in  all  parts  of  the  world. 
The  firm  also  publishes  the  Mulford  Digest,  dealing  with  prob- 
lems of  interest  to  the  physician  and  bacteriologist. 
Perhaps  the  most  striking  evidence  of  the  growth,  solidity  and 
altruistic  prescience  of  the  company  is  to  be  found  in  the  beautiful 
and  complete  biological  and  bacteriological  laboratories  at  Glenolden, 
Pa.  Here,  on  about  one  hundred  and  seventy-five  acres  of  charm- 
ing, rolling  suburban  country,  watered  by  a  clear,  never-failing 
brook,  and  shaded  by  noble  trees,  the  firm  has  built  the  most  artistic 
and  sanitary  biological  laboratories  to  be  found  in  the  world.  No 
expense  has  been  too  great  to  make  this  plant  at  once  ideally  beau- 
tiful and  useful,  and  it  is  most  interesting  to  the  visitor,  passing 
from  one  complete  unit  to  another,  to  observe  that  every  provision 
has  been  made  for  the  pleasure,  health  and  comfort  of  the  em- 
ployees. Base  ball  grounds,  tennis  courts,  dining  hall,  lecture  room, 
rest  rooms,  testify  to  the  firm's  desire  to  make  the  work  of  its 
scientific  staff  as  pleasant  as  possible,  and  Ave  may  add  that  a  course 
of  lectures  are  given  every  season,  on  subjects  bearing  directly  or 
indirectly  on  the  work  in  hand,  many  of  the  lecturers  being  scientists 
of  national  reputation  brought  to  Glenolden  at  great  expense. 
On  portions  of  this  beautiful  estate  drugs  are  grown  alike  on  a 
commercial  and  experimental  scale,  the  firm  being  desirous  to  assure 
itself  of  the  highest  quality  for  use  in  pharmaceutical  laboratories, 
and  also  to  further  the  interests  of  pure  science,  by  the  endeavor 
to  so  cultivate  the  different  plants  as  to  increase  their  yield  of  active 
principles.  This  work  is  necessarily  an  expense,  not  a  profit,  and 
we  may  add  that  much  of  the  work  of  the  bacteriological,  biological 
and  pharmaceutical  laboratories  is  devoted  to  the  elucidation  of 
