LIEBW'S  EXTRACT  OF  MEAT. 
147 
that  not  one  of  these  extracts  is,  in  its  composition,  like  another.. 
There  exists  only  two  special  directions  for  the  manufacture  of 
extract  of  meat,  the  one  in  the  Bavarian  Pharmacopoeia,  the 
other  in  the  Pharmacopoeia  Germanica,  but  these  directions  are 
not  mine." 
Thus  Baron  Liebig  not  only  claims  to  control  the  manufacture 
and  quality  of  the  Extract  to  which  he  refers,  but  implies  that 
there  is  some  secret  essential  to  the  process,  suppressed  in  his 
published  directions,  but  now  imparted  to  the  agents  of  the 
Company  with  which  he  has  connected  himself,  and  the  forma- 
tion of  which  was  registered  Dec.  4th,  1865.  Plow  far  the  spirit 
of  this  statement  accords  with  what  Baron  Liebig  published  be- 
fore the  Company  existed,  we  will  leave  others  to  judge  from  the 
following  extracts: 
"  Since  my  experiments  on  meat  in  the  year  1847  (Annalm  c£\ 
Chemie  u.  Pharmacie,  Bd.  62),  I  have  constantly  endeavored  to 
promote  the  manufacture  of  Extract  of  Meat  after  the  method' 
I  have  described^  in  countries  where  beef  has  a  lower  price  than 
with  us. 
Since  the  introduction  into  the  Bavarian  Pharmacopoeia  of  this 
Extract  of  Meat  (which  must  not  be  confounded  with  the  so- 
called  Consome  or  Bouillon  tablets),  it  has  proved  of  great  efficacy 
in  cases  of  impaired  power  of  assimilating  food,  etc. 
The  introduction  into  Europe  of  Extract  of  Meat  at  half  or  one- 
third  the  present  price,  from  countries  where  meat  has  almost  no 
value,  would  be  regarded  as  a  real  blessing  to  the  population  of 
Europe.  I  had  directed  the  attention  very  earnestly  to  the 
manufacture  of  Extract  of  Meat  in  Podolia,  Buenos  Ayres  and 
Australia,  and  was  always  ready  to  make  known  the  method  of 
preparation  to  persons  who  showed  themselves  disposed  to  be- 
come acquainted  with  it,  and  to  assist  them  with  my  advice."* 
These  sentiments  are  worthy  of  a  scientific  man  occupying  the 
eminent  position  of  Baron  Leibig,  and  such  as  were  to  be  expected 
of  one  so  placed,  and  we  have  reason  to  believe  that  prior  to  the 
Translated  from  the  Annalen  der  Chemie  und  Pharmacie,  Bd.  133v 
(1865)  p.  127. 
