Kurchi Extracts in Amœbiasis
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our competitors, whose specimens we have analysed, was, in our opinion, totally incorrect. f The alkaloidal contents of the Union Drug Co.'s!. Liquid Extract of Kurchi is 0.8 to 1 per cent., thef; percentage varying slightly; that this slight variation isfc unavoidable is a fact well known to all chemicalii experts. ff I standardize the Union Drug Co.'s Liquid Extract! of Kurchi in a special way, as I have ifound that the!, process of standardization generally followed is not'' only cumbersome, but most unreliable Before mentioning the names of different firms and characterizing their products as " extracts-belowstandard," Dr. Mozumder ought, in our opinion, to have invited the chemists of the different firms to criticizc the chemical portion of his report. He has informed me in a letter that he depended upon a friend, the chemist attached to a rival commercial concern, and
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دوره 65 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2016