Litchfield Enquirer

Impositions in Medicine.—It is said that enormous frauds and adulterations in medicine in New-York have been exposed, and that certain apothecaries and druggists have associated together, under the title of "College of Pharmacy," with a view to introduce into the preparation and sale of drugs and medicines, more knowledge and care than are now generally exercised therein. It has been discovered that calomel is mixed with white lead, red precipitate with red lead, common bark with Peruvian bark, and in one case several thousand pounds of stuff called jalap were sold at an average of six cents per pound, when the real drug was selling by the quantity at forty-five cts.—Traveller.