Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham]
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TINCTURE OF BARK.—Of the six samples submitted,
three were deficient in Alkaloids. Proceedings instituted in case
608 were dismissed on a legal technicality.
Various other samples were submitted as follows:—bread,
pepper, rum, whisky, beer, porter, tincture of quinine, tincture
of iodine, tincture of guaiacum, sal volatile, sweet nitre,
camphorated oil, cod liver oil, paregoric, olive oil, lucca oil. The
foregoing were genuine. (See Table A).